Secretary-General of the United Nations

The United Nations Security Council is set to conduct an informal vote on Monday, September 26, that is thought to be decisive in the race for the next UN Secretary General.

The ambassadors of 15 countries to the UN (the 15 ones currently in the Security Council) will be able to "encourage", "discourage" or give "no opinion" each one of the nine candidates.

The British website telegraph.co.uk has look at the candidates in the running for the post of the next secretary-general of the United Nations.

Ban Ki-moon's successor will have a difficult job, the article noted, and then analyzed the candidates' "visions" and passed their "verdicts."

The head of the EU Commission President's cabinet has issued an ambiguous statement assessting a possible candidacy of the commission Vice President Georgieva for the UN top job.

The Bulgarian government will officially nominate Kristalina Georgieva for Secretary General of the UN, government sources say.

The announcement might be made as early as next week, at an extraordinary cabinet sitting on Tuesday, news website Mediapool quotes the sources as saying. 

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.

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.

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.

Former Macedonian foreign minister and the U.N. General Assembly's 62nd president, Srgjan Kerim, has requested Turkey's support for his candidacy to succeed Ban Ki-moon as U.N. secretary general.

No organized opposition has yet emerged to the idea that the time is right for a woman to become the next United Nations Secretary-General, Mike Brunker and Alex Lazar write in an article carried by NBC News.

The authors make an overview of the complex process of selecting a nominee who would be acceptable to majority of the U.N.'s 193 General Assembly members.