United Nations: The United Nations Security Council is all set to begin the selection process of its new Secretary General, for which Indian candidate Shashi Tharoor is in the fray.
The selection will commence next week as it is expected to hold the first ‘straw’ or informal poll on aspirants already in the field.
The poll is designed to gauge the support that each of the declared candidates enjoys among the Council members especially the permanent five- United States, Britain, France, Russia and China- whose backing is necessary for a candidate to be finally nominated.
Though the Council is free to devise its own procedure, generally each candidate is voted separately. The members are distributed blank ballots on which they make a mark to show whether they support or oppose the candidate.
The permanent five either mark the paper with different ink or are given ballots with different colours.
Should a permanent member oppose a particular candidate, he or she is informally about it but no one would know which of the five has cast negative vote.
There could be several straw polls before a final poll is taken and a nomination sent to the General Assembly for approval.
Currently, there are three candidates in the field - Indian nominee UN Under Secretary General Shashi Tharoor, Sri Lanka's Jayantha Dhanapala and Thai Deputy Prime Minister Surakiart Sathirathai.
More names could come up for nomination as the process proceeds and a
new candidate can be introduced at any stage including just prior to the final vote.
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