Tougher Ban to get nod for second term - diplomats

by admin
Mar 26, 2011

The permanent members of the Security Council have no problem with a second term for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Reuters quotes UN diplomats as saying.

Once criticised by Human Rights Watch for being "notably reluctant to put pressure on abusive governments," Ban has grown tougher and more self-confident in recent months, they say.

In 2008 Russia had threatened to block Ban’s second term for supporting Kosovo’s seccesion from Serbia, but Moscow “got over it,” Reuters quoted diplomats as saying.

"It's not as if he's lightning in a bottle, but we can live with him," a senior Western diplomat said.

See Reuters report here.

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