• Submitted by: manso
• International
• 06 / 17 / 2011

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Ban: his plans to be recommended for a second term might were postponed today. UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon is in Brazil rallying for support for his candidacy for a second term as the head of the United Nations. The trip marks the conclusion of a South American tour that has taken him to Colombia Argentina and Uruguay. The visit to the Latin American nation includes meetings with Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota and Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff.

On the Agenda, besides his candidacy, are issues related to the international context, amongst them the next UN Summit for Sustainable Development to be celebrated in Rio de Janeiro next year and the presence of Brazilian Peace Keepers in Haiti.

But his plans to be recommended for a second term might were postponed today.The UN Security Council delayed today its vote to recommend Ban Ki-moon for a second term as UN chief after Cuba prevented the Latin American and Caribbean group from endorsing him.

Diplomats said the council vote on whether to recommend that the former South Korean foreign minister get a second five-year term as UN secretary-general starting in January 2012 has been postponed one day and will take place tomorrow.

Officially, UN secretaries-general are elected by the General Assembly on the recommendation of the Security Council. In reality, it is the five permanent veto-wielding council members – Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States – that decide who gets the job.

All five permanent council members have said they support Ban's re-election.

The General Assembly is expected to formally approve Ban's second term on Tuesday.

Cuba, the sole country to have indicated that it might have problems with the idea of re-electing Ban, cannot prevent him from getting a new term.

Source: http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/70271/ban-kimoon-in-brazil-rall...