{"id":2000106657,"date":"2026-03-27T09:04:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/?p=2000106657"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:04:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:04:54","slug":"1-nomination-withdrawn-for-position-of-next-un-secretary-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/1-nomination-withdrawn-for-position-of-next-un-secretary-general\/","title":{"rendered":"1 nomination withdrawn for position of next UN secretary-general"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Maldives has notified the president of the UNGA and the president of the Security Council of its decision to withdraw its nomination of Gamba, according to a note to correspondents issued by the spokesperson of the Office of the President of the UNGA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the withdrawal, there are four candidates for the next UN secretary-general: former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, originally nominated by Chile, Brazil and Mexico; Rafael Grossi, the current director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, nominated by Argentina; Macky Sall, former president of Senegal, nominated by Burundi; and Rebeca Grynspan, economist and former vice president of Costa Rica, nominated by Costa Rica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to documents posted on the website of the United Nations on Thursday, Chile has withdrawn its nomination of Bachelet, but she will remain as a candidate nominated by Brazil and Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antonio Guterres, the current and ninth secretary-general of the United Nations, took office in January 2017. The next UN secretary-general will take over the role from Jan. 1, 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Virginia Gamba’s candidacy has been withdrawn. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Maldives has decided to withdraw the candidacy of Virginia Gamba, former UN under-secretary-general and Argentine scholar, for the position of the next UN secretary-general, the Office of the President of the 80th UN General Assembly (UNGA) said Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000106659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[151,69,101],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000106657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-editors-choice","tag-homehighlights","tag-internationl","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000106659,"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/iv.jpg","alt":"","caption":"Virginia Gamba's candidacy has been withdrawn. ","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":2560,"height":1707,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/iv.jpg","width":150,"height":100},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/iv.jpg","width":300,"height":200},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/iv.jpg","width":768,"height":512},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/iv.jpg","width":1024,"height":683},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/iv.jpg","width":2560,"height":1707}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000106657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000106657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000106657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000106660,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000106657\/revisions\/2000106660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000106659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000106657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000106657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000106657"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000106657"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000106657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}