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| Sunday, 22 January 2012 11:06 |
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Dar es Salaam. A day after The Citizen on Saturday revealed that Dr Asha-Rose Migiro was returning home from a five-year stint as UN Deputy Secretary-General, a US investigative newspaper reported that an Argentine woman was tipped to succeed her. The Inner City Press yesterday named Ms Susan Malcorra as the possible successor of Dr Migiro, who is the first African woman to serve in the Number Two post at the UN. Ms Malcorra is currently head of the UN Department of Field Support (DFS). According to the City Press, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has tabbed the Argentine to replace Dr Migiro. However, The Citizen on Sunday could not independently verify this information. Mr Ban has indicated that he would soon be unveiling a new team to spearhead his administration during his second and last five-year term in office. Efforts to reach Dr Migiro by telephone and email have not bore fruit since Friday when information on her imminent departure from New York became public. Yesterday Internet chartrooms went overdrive over Dr Migiro, with local bloggers’ discussions largely centering on reasons as to why she was leaving the UN and her expected role when she arrives home. Before she was picked in 2007 by Mr Ban to serve as her principal assistant, Dr Migiro was the Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Many commentators believe she will go back into politics under the ruling CCM, in which she previously served as a senior official of the women’s wing. However, others speculated that she could resume lecturing at the University of Dar es Salaam.According to the Inner City Press, Mr Ban would settle for Ms Malcorra as a means to maintain faith in women and also in defence of the need to keep the position for a member from the developing world. The newspaper claimed that Dr Migiro had for months campaigned for a second term at the UN, reportedly asking the African Union to pressure her boss to keep her on.“But just as Ban ignored AU requests to appoint a full time Special Advisor on Africa...Ban has rebuffed Migiro’s and the African Group’s requests,” the Inner City Press said. Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites           |
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