This year’s open hustings is the first of its kind as eight people will face questions about war,refugees, climate change and how to forge agreements between 193 nations Members event: meet the candidates for next secretary general
Candidates for UN top job given public hearing 1.56am BSTWere going to close out our live coverage of the evening with a rapid/fast summary of the candidates arguments – check back through the blog below to read about the Syrian refugee crisis, or reforming the UN,the arguments for intervention, how the candidates consider about human rights, and where they consider the Panama Papers and dirty money should be dealt with in the international order. 1.48am BSTClosing remarks from a professor who helped organize the event. He praises the openness of new election process,and the unscripted quality of tonight’s talk – and the humor – that it’s brought to the UN process.“This has made a inequity,” he says, and noting that another candidate is releasing an 80-page platform to the public. More openness might come at some cost to the feeble ways of doing things,he says, but “the glass is, and for me,two-thirds full.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com