Guyana’s Rodrigues Birkett leads informal poll in race to be next UN leader

(Al Jazeera)-The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) conducted its second non-binding straw poll on Friday in the race to select the next UN secretary-general, with Guyana’s Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett emerging as the frontrunner ahead of seven other declared candidates. Ambassador Christina Markus Lassen of Denmark, the council’s president for August, confirmed the vote had […]