Vuk Jeremic

Days before the fifth vote in the UN Security Council for the post of Secretary General on September 26, Serbia's candidate, Vuk Jeremic, is winning support from important Western media outlets as the best candidate.

Despite the praise, a foreign policy expert for the Serbian newspaper Politika, Bosko Jaksic, told BIRN that Jeremic would probably not be elected.

The U.S.-based Advisory Council for Bosnia-Herzegovina (ACBH) says it is strongly opposed to Vuk Jeremic's candidacy for the top UN job.

A statement issued by the NGO said that "apart from sending letters to various UN member states, ACBH also met with the U.S. Mission to the UN last week."

The best choice for reform at the United Nations is Serbia's candidate for the organ

NEW YORK - A fourth round of the vote to select the new UN secretary-general was held at the UN headquarters in New York Friday, with former Portuguese PM Antonio Guterres still leading the race as Serbia's candidate Vuk Jeremic remains in third position, but with two more encourage votes than in the previous round.

Irina Bokova, Bulgaria's candidate for Secretary General of the UN, remained fifth after today's straw poll of the Security Council in New York.

Former Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic has once again placed third in a new round of informal voting held at the UN Security Council.

The fourth round was organized as a part of the process to elect the successor to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Kosovo's consulate in New York has sent a letter to all members of the UN asking that Vuk Jeremic not be elected as Ban Ki-moon's successor.

BELGRADE - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met Vuk Jeremic, Serbia's former foreign minister and a candidate to the post of U.N. Secretary General, in Moscow on Wednesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Serbia's top UN job hopeful Vuk Jeremic presented his platform on Thursday in New York, as part of what the UN dubbed "informal dialogues" with candidates.

Jeremic's 80-page platform to reform the UN has five parts: sustainable development, climate change, conflict prevention and peace operations, human rights and humanitarian relief, and UN revitalization.

Former Serbian Foreign Minister and UN General Assembly President Vuk Jeremic is the 9th candidate in the race for Ban Ki-moon's successor.

Jeremic is also the fifth candidate for the post of UN secretary-general from the former Yugoslavia.