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Know The Indian-Origin Woman Who Has Announced Her Candidacy To Be Next UN Chief

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United Nations: Arora Akanksha, 34, an Indian-origin employee at the UN has announced her candidacy to be the next Secretary-General. She is the first person to throw her hat in the ring against incumbent Antonio Guterres, who is seeking a second five-year term beginning January 2022 as chief of the world organisation, NDTV reported quoting PTI.

Akanksha is working as an audit coordinator for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). She said she will run for the post of the world’s top diplomat and launched her campaign #AroraForSG this month.

“People in my position aren’t supposed to stand up to the ones in charge. We are supposed to wait our turn, hop on the hamster wheel, go to work, keep our heads down and accept that the world is the way it is,” Akanksha said in a two-and-a-half-minute campaign video posted online.

The video shows her walking inside the sprawling UN headquarters, as her voiceover says that people who have come before her have “failed to hold the UN accountable”.

“For 75 years, the UN has not fulfilled its promise to the world – refugees haven’t been protected, humanitarian aid has been minimal, and technology and innovation has been on the back-burner. We deserve a UN that leads progress,” she says.

“That is why I am running for the Secretary-General of the United Nations. I refuse to be a bystander. I will not accept this is the best the UN can do,” she says in the video.

Last month Antonio Guterres, 71, had confirmed that he will seek a second five-year term as chief of the world organisation. His first term ends on December 31 this year.

Antonio Guterres is the 9th Secretary-General of the United Nations and no woman has held the position of the world’s top diplomat in the 75-year history of the United Nations.

The Secretary-General is appointed by the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the Security Council, making the Secretary-General’s selection subject to the veto of any of the five permanent members of the Council.

OB Bureau

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