ONU : pourquoi le Burundi a déposé la candidature de Macky Sall, un ancien conseiller de Kofi Annan et de Ban Ki-Moon explique
He served as legal advisor to the United Nations Secretariat under Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon. In an interview published this Monday in L'Observateur, Ousmane Kane analyzes Burundi's initiative to nominate Macky Sall for the position of UN Secretary-General. First, he recalls "a simple rule of the [UN] system: a candidacy for the position of Secretary-General must be submitted by a member state, but that state is not necessarily the candidate's country of origin."
What mattered, "from a procedural point of view, was that the candidacy be officially transmitted to the President of the General Assembly and the Security Council," notes Ousmane Kane. "In this context, the fact that Burundi took the initiative to submit the candidacy of former President Macky Sall can be interpreted as a pragmatic diplomatic move aimed at formally including this candidacy in the UN process."
According to the international lawyer, "this initiative seems to reveal the emergence of an African diplomatic dynamic around this candidacy. At this stage, Macky Sall appears as the only clearly positioned African candidate, which, gradually, places him in a position of rallying point for several countries on the continent."
However, the former advisor to Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon points out, "two essential questions remain: the position that Senegal will take and the ability of other African countries to rally around this candidacy."
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