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Article: U.N.: NEW SECRETARY-GENERAL MUST LEAD ON HUMAN RIGHTS
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- October 3, 2006
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Human Rights Watch issued the following news release:
The incoming UN secretary-general must be prepared to speak out publicly against human rights abusers wherever they are found, however powerful they are, Human Rights Watch said today. The Security Council late yesterday afternoon conducted a straw poll which made it all but certain that it would recommend Ban Ki-moon, South Korea's minister of foreign affairs and trade, to the General Assembly for election to the post of secretary-general. The General Assembly has never rejected such a recommendation.
The Security Council is expected to vote formally on its secretary-general recommendation on Monday, October 9. "Kofi Annan has been ...