Asian successor for Kofi Annan hits roadblock:- Kuala Lumpur | June 23, 2005 4:43:37 PM IST
Kuala Lumpur, June 23 : Asian political leaders are worried their bid to install an Asian as Kofi Annan's successor at the UN is running into trouble, reports UPI. They fear the two Asian candidates who have emerged so far - Sri Lanka's Jayantha Dhanapala and Thailand's Surakiart Sathirathai - are not sufficiently known, and that a better-known eastern European -Polish President Aleksandr Kwasniewski - could trump their bid. Asian officials and leaders have been canvassing hard for international support, particularly from Africans and Latin Americans, to agree that it is Asia's turn to provide the UN secretary general. Read the rest of the article @ http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=90799&cat=India -- Cheers, Gabe Menezes. London, England
