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« on: November 04, 2010, 02:27:32 pm »


Top job for Clark at United Nations?

GORDON CAMBPELL — TALKING POLITICS

The Wellingtonian | 4:52PM - Wednesday, 03 November 2010

World President Helen Clark

LAST WEEK, Prime Minister John Key met United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon at the East Asian Summit in Vietnam, and invited Ban to visit Auckland next year, for the Pacific Forum meeting.

The invitation will only give fresh legs to a very old story — that perhaps one day Key's predecessor, Helen Clark, will succeed Ban in the top job at the United Nations.

That story first saw daylight in 2005, when Clark was cited by the women's rights organisation Equality Now as a prime candidate for the United Nations' top position.

Clark's subsequent appointment to head the United Nations Development Programme (the global organisation's third most powerful job) has brought her into sharper focus as potential leader.

Last year, a memo by Norwegian United Nations diplomat Mona Juul was leaked to the media.

In it, Juul not only trashed Ban as a "spineless" and "charmless" leader surrounded by mediocrities, but argued that Clark could mount a plausible challenge to unseat Ban when the Korean ends his first five-year term in the job in December 2011.

New Zealand is politically aligned with the West, Juul reasoned with a fairly shaky sense of geography, but is located in Asia.

"As a woman from that part of the world," Juul wrote, "Clark could quickly become a competitor for Ban's second [term]."

Since then, the criticisms of Ban have only increased.

In July, Inga-Britt Ahlenius, the outgoing head of a key United Nations oversight agency, delivered a damning 50-page summary of Ban's failings.

Despite the low esteem in which Ban is held — especially when compared to his dynamic predecessor, Kofi Annan — there are significant obstacles to Clark's ascension any time soon.

For one thing, Ban has just hired another highly capable woman to a top United Nations job — Michelle Bachelet, the former president of Chile. For another, both Clark and Bachelet would have to transcend the loosely recognised rotation system for the United Nations' top job, which is supposed to be shared among five blocs: the West, Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa.

Unless China can be convinced to waive Asia's current turn at the top — perhaps by being offered the leadership of the World Bank — Asia's term runs until 2016, at which point Eastern Europe is supposed to get the job.

Danilo Turk, the current Slovenian president, is a former United Nations heavyweight and lieutenant of Annan, and could be a formidable contender in 2016.

Ban's very mediocrity, though, is what endears him to some Security Council members.

Neither China nor the United States, for example, would welcome a United Nations willing and able to hold them to account.

As American historian Stephen Schlesinger noted earlier this year: "It is true that charismatic overseers can help rally the United Nations behind America's policies far more reliably than weak ones. But the downside is that these same individuals can sometimes act as more independent operatives who challenge US interests and stymie American aims.

"In this sense, [Ban's] weakness may also be his strength."

At best then, Clark will probably have to wait until 2016 for a crack at the job, and even then it looks like an uphill battle.

However, any New Zealander who has seen Clark's tenacity and determination at first hand would not write off her chances entirely.


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« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2016, 06:42:51 pm »


from The Washington Post....

Ex-New Zealand leader Clark announces bid for top UN post

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press | 12:23AM EDT - Tuesday, April 05, 2016

Helen Clark, the former Prime Minister of New Zealand and senior United Nations official, speaks during an interview in New York, on Monday, April 4th, 2016. Clark has announced she is running for the top position at the U.N. with the backing of the New Zealand government. — Photograph: Seth Wenig/Associated Press.
Helen Clark, the former Prime Minister of New Zealand and senior United Nations official, speaks during an interview in New York, on Monday,
April 4th, 2016. Clark has announced she is running for the top position at the U.N. with the backing of the New Zealand government.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Helen Clark, a former New Zealand prime minister who is now a senior U.N. official, announced on Tuesday she is running for the top position at the United Nations, saying she would bring nearly 30 years of leadership skills to the job of secretary-general in a world of increasing challenges.

Clark is the eighth candidate, and the first from outside Europe, to enter the race to succeed Ban Ki-moon, whose second term expires at the end of this year. Some in the U.N. are pushing for a woman to take the top role for the first time and some, including Russia, are arguing that Eastern Europe has never had a secretary-general and it's their turn.

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said he had personally raised the possibility of her candidacy with President Barack Obama and other senior U.S. officials when he was in Washington last week and didn't get any pushback. Key said he will make the case to President Xi Jinping when he visits China later this month.

The New Zealand government has formally nominated Clark.

“I think the position is open,” Clark said in an interview with The Associated Press in New York. “The New Zealand government is responding to that saying they think Helen is the best person for the job. So I go into it believing that at this time the critical thing for member states to look at is: What are the challenges?”

The U.N. secretary-general is chosen by the 193-member General Assembly on the recommendation of the 15-member Security Council, which means it's crucial to get support from its five veto-wielding members known as the P5: the U.S., China, Russia, Britain and France.

“I could make a very strong case to you that Helen Clark's credentials are far better than any other candidate that is currently on the list, or anyone that I'm aware that might put their name forward,” said Key.

“But unfortunately, in the world of multilateralism, things aren't quite as simple as that. There is a lot of horse-trading that goes on. It will depend enormously on the views of the P5 and ultimately if they feel it's the turn of the Eastern Europeans or someone else.”

Clark was prime minister for nine years until 2008 and has headed the U.N. Development Program for the past seven years. In the Associated Press interview, Clark said she thought the position was open.

“I think on the basis of what I've done in my life I've got the skills to do this,” she said. “I have led a small country in the South Pacific for nine years. I've been in leadership positions really going back close to three decades.”

She said that if she were to win the post, a top priority would be dealing with conflict caused by civil wars and violent extremists, something which would call for taking another look at the U.N.'s toolkit. She said she thought she could bring a modernizing touch to the organization.

“I think it’s probably fair to say that as an administration it can be a little clunky and a little old fashioned,” she said.

She said she came from a diverse region of the world and wasn't campaigning as a woman but rather as the best person for the job.

“So I know a lot about working with diversity and embracing diversity, and seeing whether it's possible to find some unity and consensus,” she said.

Key said New Zealand's current role as a non-permanent member of the Security Council for a two-year term probably helps Clark's candidacy because its diplomats are mixing in those circles.

The U.N. General Assembly will begin preliminary meetings with candidates in New York from April 12th-14th but there is no closing date for nominations and more are expected.


Associated Press writer Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/ex-new-zealand-leader-clark-announces-bid-for-top-un-post/2016/04/04/3b29ebb4-fac3-11e5-813a-90ab563f0dde_story.html
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wonder if she can stop the UN peacekeeper sexual abuses that have been going on for years



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« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2016, 09:25:45 am »



 Whatever happened to 'the best person for the job'? Is poor Helen a 'token female'?

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from The New Zealand Herald....

Kevin Rudd dismisses Helen Clark's chances at United Nations' top job

3:20PM - Sunday, April 17, 2016

Helen Clark, the former Prime Minister of New Zealand and senior United Nations official, speaks during an interview in New York. — Photograph: Associated Press.
Helen Clark, the former Prime Minister of New Zealand and senior United Nations official, speaks
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FORMER Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has effectively dismissed Helen Clark's chances of becoming the next UN Secretary-General, saying she was “very capable” but it was his “firm belief” an Eastern European would get the job.

Speaking to Indian newspaper the Hindu, Mr Rudd, who is widely rumoured to want the job himself, was asked about Helen Clark's bid for the job.

“As I said it is my firm belief that this time we will have a UN [Secretary-General] chief from East Europe. As for Helen, I think she will be a strong candidate if we cannot find agreement between the P-5 and the other members of the Security Council on an East European candidate.”

Mr Rudd said he had known Helen Clark for a long time.

“She's a very capable person and strong PM of New Zealand as well as a strong internationalist.”

The P-5 are the five permanent members of the Security Council who have a power of veto over the Secretary-Generals' role — Russia, France, China, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Asked about his own intentions of standing, Mr Rudd referred to his view that an Eastern European would get it.

“Last I looked my name is not Ruddovich.”

He would not comment on Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop's remarks that he had been lobbying world leaders.

"That is a statement she made and I didn't."

His answer to the Clark question will fuel the theory he is waiting to see if the Security Council can agree on an Eastern European candidate before putting his own name up as a possible candidate.

The Secretary-General role is rotated around the regions represented in the UN and Eastern Europe has not yet had anyone in the role, while New Zealand forms part of the Western Europe and Others region.

Of the nine candidates, only two are not from Eastern Europe — Helen Clark and Portugal's Antonio Guterres.

Helen Clark has responded to the question of whether an Eastern European should get it by saying that all member states were invited to nominate candidates and that the best person for the job should get it.

All nine candidates went before the General Assembly last week for two hour sessions on the role.

However, other candidates may come forward either before or after the Security Council meets for a preliminary vetting in July.

There is speculation German Chancellor Angela Merkel is considering it.

Mr Rudd is likely to seek support from Australia's Government if he wishes to run and there are mixed views on that in Australia.

Australia has so far withheld public support for Helen Clark and Prime Minister John Key has previously said if Mr Rudd did contest it, he would expect Australia to feel honour-bound to support him.


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Read more on this topic:

 • Helen Clark's CV gets timely boost

 • Helen Clark makes her pitch for job of United Nations Secretary-General


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=11624092



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« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2016, 09:11:12 pm »


from Fairfax NZ....

Clark's bid for UN top seat the talk on PM's trip to China


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from The Sydney Morning Herald....

Just one in five Australians back Kevin Rudd
for UN's top job, new poll finds


By HEATH ASTON | 3:40PM EST - Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Even Labor voters prefer former Kiwi prime minister Helen Clark to Kevin Rudd for the UN role, the poll found. — Photograph: Glen McCurtayne.
Even Labor voters prefer former Kiwi prime minister Helen Clark to Kevin Rudd for the UN role,
the poll found. — Photograph: Glen McCurtayne.


TWICE as many Australians support New Zealand's Helen Clark to lead the United Nations than Kevin Rudd.

And even Labor voters prefer the former Kiwi prime minister to Mr Rudd, a poll has found.

The Essential poll, released on Wednesday, indicates Australia's two-time former prime minister would no longer muster the widespread public support that characterised the “Kevin 07” election campaign and kept his leadership ambitions alive against Julia Gillard after being dumped by his party in 2010.

Mr Rudd has spent the past 12 months testing and rallying support for a bid to become UN secretary-general but has not made his candidacy official. His spokeswoman recently declared that he was "not a candidate".

The Essential poll found 45 percent of 1020 people surveyed thought Ms Clark would be a better leader for the UN, with just 21 percent opting for Mr Rudd.

More people — 34 percent — did not know who would make the better secretary-general than those who supported Mr Rudd.

Among Labor voters, 36 percent preferred Ms Clark, compared with 34 percent who backed Mr Rudd.

Just 17 percent of Coalition voters would support Mr Rudd.

A spokeswoman for Mr Rudd could not be reached on Wednesday.

He said recently that he believed an Eastern European candidate was the most likely to be chosen to replace Ban Ki-moon as secretary-general. “Last I looked my name is not Ruddovich,” Mr Rudd said.

The current frontrunner of nine declared candidates is believed to be UNESCO secretary-general Irina Bokova, a Bulgarian former communist who is favoured by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The United States and Britain are known to favour the appointment of a woman, which could boost the chances of Ms Clark, 66, who is the third most senior employee at the UN.

Mr Rudd's interest in the job has been a source of friction inside the Coalition with one Liberal backbencher recently quoted anonymously saying if Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull swung his government's support behind the former Labor leader it would be his own “knights and dames moment”.

The Essential poll found a hardening of support for the Bill Shorten-led opposition a week out from the budget and less than a fortnight from the likely start to the 2016 election campaign.

It found Labor ahead 52-48 on a two-party preferred basis. Recent Essential polls have had the two major parties evenly poised at 50-50.

But 42 percent of respondents still expect Mr Turnbull to lead his government to re-election compared to 28 percent who expect Labor to be back in office on July 3rd.


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Read more on this topic:

 • Helen Clark, ex-New Zealand PM, wants to be next UN chief

 • Senators urge Barack Obama to push for female United Nations secretary-general


http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/just-one-in-five-australians-back-kevin-rudd-for-uns-top-job-new-poll-finds-20160427-gog8bz.html
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« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2016, 12:58:48 pm »


from National Business Review....

Helen Clark emerges as bookies' favourite for top job at UN

By CHRIS KEALL | Monday, April 25, 2016

Helen Clark is the punters' favourite.
Helen Clark is the punters' favourite.

UK BOOKMAKERS William Hill have cut Helen Clark to her shortest odds yet to become UN Secretary General.

In mid-April, after her candidacy was confirmed, William Hill had Ms Clark at Clark was given odds of 7/2, or a 22% chance of winning.

Bulgarian politician and director general of UN agency Unesco, Irina Bokova, was given the same odds.

As head of the UN's development programme, Ms Clark outranks Ms Bokova in the agency's bureaucracy and has a higher profile — but the received wisdom was that UN members would vote for an Eastern European candidate simply because it was that region's “turn” to supply an occupant for the post.

But an effective social media campaign and public “job interview” saw Ms Clark emerge as the 2/1 favourite.

Overnight, William Hill said the New Zealander had received further betting support and was now the odds-on favourite at 6/4.

“Political punters see this contest as a two-horse race with Clark well clear of the field at the moment,” William Hill spokesman Graham Sharpe says.

And the second-placed horse is fading on the home straight. Ms Borkova has drifted out from 9/4 to 5/2.

The secretary-general is decided by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council: China (whom visitor John Key expects to back Ms Clark), France, Russia, the UK and the US. Their nominee will be presented to the 193 UN member states for approval.

The Council's decision is expected on May 1st.

The incumbent, Ban Ki Moon, is retiring after his second five-year term expires at the end of December. There is no limit on the number of five-year terms that can be served, but no candidate has stood for more than two.


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from Fairfax NZ....

Kevin Rudd ‘undermines’ Helen Clark in
cringeworthy ‘Hard Chat’ TV interview


By LAURA MCQUILLAN | 7:16AM - Friday, 29 April 2016



IF the UN Secretary General race was won on painful attempts at humour, Kevin Rudd would be a shoo-in.

The former Australian prime minister's ambitions for the United Nation's top job are the worst kept secret in global politics, but a cringeworthy interview about politics — including his take on Helen Clark's UN campaign — might go down as Rudd's worst TV appearance to date.

In an appearance on Australian comedy show The Weekly's Hard Chat segment, the ex-politician struggled to keep up with host's Tom Gleeson's zingers.

As the sit-down interview — filmed in New York — began, Gleeson asked Rudd if he wanted to return to the city's Scores Nightclub, which the then-opposition leader famously visited in 2007.

Rudd woodenly responded: “They actually have standards for the people they admit and, Tom, I love you dearly, but I've known you for all of five minutes, they just wouldn't let you in.”

From there ensued a four-and-a-half minute field day for Gleenson, as he ribbed Rudd over his repeated efforts to undermine other politicians during his time as a Labor MP, and what that might mean for Clark if she were elected UN boss.


When it comes to TV interviews, Kevin Rudd found grinning is not necessarily winning. — Photo: Hard Chat.
When it comes to TV interviews, Kevin Rudd found grinning is not necessarily winning.
 — Photo: Hard Chat.


In 2006, Rudd rolled then-party leader Kim Beazley and was elected prime minister in 2007, then himself was rolled by his own deputy Julia Gillard in 2010. He lost another leadership contest to her 2012, before reclaiming Labor's top job in 2013 — only to lose that year's election to Tony Abbott, who himself was later rolled by Australia's current prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull.

Of Rudd's political history, Gleeson quipped: “We've had five prime ministers in five years. Were you the best one because you were two of them?”

Rudd — apparently having left his funny bone in Canberra — replied: “I think we've had a few too many.”

“When are we going to see the third Rudd government?” Gleeson asked.

“How much time have you got?” Rudd replied.


In a recent poll, Australians backed Helen Clark over Kevin Rudd for the UN's top job.
In a recent poll, Australians backed Helen Clark over Kevin Rudd for the UN's top job.

Gleeson, lapping up Rudd's flatness, asked: “If Helen Clark becomes the leader of the UN, are you going to undermine her?”

Rudd takes a breath, before responding: “I think Helen's a great candidate…”, trailing off as the host gleefully quipped: “you're doing it now.”

Rudd repeats, between giggles, “I think Helen's a great candidate.”

“See, that's it, that's you, this is what you're good at,” Gleeson beams. “This is your natural game, this is what you're good at.”


Hard Chat host Tom Gleeson had a field day at Kevin Rudd's expense. — Photo: Hard Chat.
Hard Chat host Tom Gleeson had a field day at Kevin Rudd's expense. — Photo: Hard Chat.

Again, Rudd — now grinning like a Cheshire cat — says “I think she's a great candidate.”

He continued: “A lot of us were out there supporting Helen to be appointed head of [the UN Development Programme] in the first place. Gordon Brown, myself. She's a great international public servant.”

Gleeson was clearly thrilled at situation he'd coaxed Rudd into. “Oh it's wonderful to watch it up close. It's what's between the sentences, that's what I like.”

Given Rudd's painful performance, it's not surprising Australians are overwhelming backing Clark over the likely Aussie challenger.

Gleeson summed it up best, telling Rudd: “Don't do jokes. It's weird!”


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Read more on this topic:

 • Clark vs Rudd: UN battle gets personal

 • Clark a better candidate than Rudd — Aussie poll

 • Helen Clark makes pitch to UN


http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/79429484
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from The Dominion Post....

EDITORIAL: Aussie government scuppers
Rudd's campaign and gives Clark a boost


5:00AM - Monday, 01 August 2016

Kevin Rudd: Grinning is not necessarily winning. — Picture: Hard Chat.
Kevin Rudd: Grinning is not necessarily winning. — Picture: Hard Chat.

OF COURSE New Zealand is chuffed that the Australian Government has decided not to back Kevin Rudd for the job of United Nations Secretary-General.

That means Rudd, the former Labor leader and Australian Prime Minister, can't stand at all, because he needs his own government's endorsement.

And this in turn means there's one less competitor for New Zealand's own Helen Clark. What's bad for Rudd is good for New Zealand.

But there is another reason to applaud the “captain's call” made by Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull. It sets the excellent precedent that a Government won't back its own citizen just because he's an Aussie.

It's a slap in the face for the “My country right or wrong” brigade. In this case the argument was “our guy, no matter what a jerk he is”, and the Aussie Cabinet demurred.

Of course it might not have been as enlightened a decision as it looked. There are lots of low political reasons why the Right of the ruling coalition has got it in for Rudd.

The Cabinet was badly split, which means that many of the ministers were prepared to support Rudd, and this was clearly regrettable. Still, the right decision was reached even if the motives were mixed.


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It's still not certain either that the Australian Government will officially support Helen Clark. Turnbull said on Friday that that was still to be considered.

The former Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, had committed to a joint plan with New Zealand to back Ms Clark. But this became moot when Abbott was removed as prime minister and Kevin Rudd asked the Australian Government to back him.

The plain fact is that Rudd was not a good candidate for the post. Even his friends and admirers will concede that he isn't, to put it politely, “a team player”. He was so high-handed, in fact, that the Labor caucus replaced him as prime minister during his first term, the first Aussie PM to suffer this fate.

Nobody ever doubted Rudd's intelligence or his ability. It was his bossiness and rudeness that they couldn't stand. Why would the Security Council of the United Nations, that select band of the world's most powerful leaders, put up with a little Ocker dictator?

But the lessons from the Aussie decision over Rudd actually go even wider. If countries refuse the “my countryman right or wrong” argument, all kinds of unpredictable rationality could break out.

New Zealanders, for instance, might be forced to concede that Helen Clark isn't necessarily the best candidate for the UN job either. True, she seems to have done a good job as head of the United Nations development programme.

But there are plenty of other contenders with a good record of service at the highest political levels. And it might even be, though John Key is unlikely to say so, that some of her rivals have as many political skills as she does.

So perhaps some other candidate might be even better than the Kiwi one.


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« Reply #10 on: August 02, 2016, 06:20:38 pm »

But the Maori party don't want her


"New Zealand First leader Winston Peters says the Maori Party is being "treacherous" in saying it does not support Helen Clark's bid to become UN Secretary General.

"It is petty grand standing without any principle," he said. "the reality is the Maori Party is desperately appearing to be relevant."

"It is treacherous in the extreme," he said."New Zealand First leader Winston Peters says the Maori Party is being "treacherous" in saying it does not support Helen Clark's bid to become UN Secretary General.

"It is petty grand standing without any principle," he said. "the reality is the Maori Party is desperately appearing to be relevant."

"It is treacherous in the extreme," he said.

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« Reply #11 on: August 05, 2016, 02:14:54 pm »


Helen Clark wants to keep sucking on the giant tit
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« Reply #12 on: August 05, 2016, 06:12:40 pm »

Yeah..hard to know if that would be good ....or bad for NZ
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« Reply #14 on: August 06, 2016, 08:05:39 am »

In the latest ballot she slipped from 6 down to 7.... Going backwards..hope she still has her day job
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« Reply #15 on: August 10, 2016, 08:41:45 am »

Just another drone among a cloud of drones infesting that toothless horror called the UN.
As far as l am aware, she  has never had a real job in her life, something l believe should be a requiisite for descent to any public office
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She's from a pop group called the leftist klingons


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« Reply #17 on: August 16, 2016, 05:42:56 pm »

Let's just hope she does not now eye up the vacant job of NZ Labour Party leader

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