Asia's turn for next U.N. secretary general, Russian envoy says
February 9, 2006Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Andrey Denisov said at a press briefing Thursday that Moscow supports the selection of a new secretary general from Asia, in keeping with the informal geographic rotation system of selecting a leader for the 191-member body. ''We prefer to follow the traditional way of tackling the issue, of handling the matter of election of new secretary general,'' said Denisov. ''It is still not a fixed position for us, but we have very strong doubt that it makes sense to...restart...it will only bring a mess to our reform process and process of normal functioning of the U.N.''