On 7 June, the UN General Assembly under the presidency of Mogens Lykketoft, former speaker of the Danish parliament, held hearings with the latest of 11 officially nominated candidates for the post of secretary-general of the UN to start on 1 (...)
Two days after my appointment as the first woman secretary-general of a global parliamentary body, I was still sitting in a stunned state at my desk. The intercom beeped and in a daze I heard “It's the secretary-general's office on line one.” In my (...)