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Article: Candidates vie for top U.N. job.(WORLD)
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- October 6, 2006
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It's been called a papal conclave without the smoke.
The jockeying for the selection of a new U.N. secretary-general is on. Candidates that have been in the running for months--Ban Ki Moon, South Korea's foreign minister; Jayantha Dhanapala, senior adviser to the president of Sri Lanka; India's Shashi Tharoor, U.N. under-secretary-general for public information, Thailand's deputy prime minister Surakieart Sathirathai, and, most recently, Prince Zeid Raad Zeid Al-Hussein, Jordan's ambassador to the United Nations--have been joined by others. Just this week Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga announced her candidacy and Afghanistan said it would field former ...