Seventh candidate, Uganda’s Otunmu, joins race to lead UN
Attendees watch as the six candidates for the United Nations Secretary-General position debate at the UN General Assembly Hall in New York on July 23.
The race to become the next leader of the United Nations on July 25 added a seventh candidate: Uganda’s Olara Otunnu, a former opposition presidential candidate and onetime high-ranking U.N. official.
The world body informed member states of the candidacy of the 75-year-old Otunnu, which was presented by his home nation.
Otunnu served as U.N. under-secretary general and special representative for children and armed conflict from 1997 to 2005 under then U.N. chief Kofi Annan.
