‘Only a man can become UN chief’

London::
Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga said her candidacy to become the UN chief had no chance of succeeding because she is a woman, in an interview published on Sunday. Vike-Freiberga is one of six candidates to have pulled out of the running to become Kofi Annans successor as United Nations secretary-general. South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon, the only candidate left, is set to be formally endorsed as the new UN chief on Monday. The Latvian President, who led her country into the European Union and NATO, told a British weekly newspaper that she felt there was an old boys network operating at the UN. She insisted it was high time for a woman to fill the worlds top diplomatic post. "I hope my candidacy will make it easier," she told The Observer. "But whether it will take another 60 years or another 600, I have no way of knowing." Last Monday, Ban, 62, won a decisive fourth straw poll in the Security Council after securing crucial backing from its five veto-wielding permanent members. AFP

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HOW SHOCKING, THIS IS THE STATE OF AFFAIRS OF AN ORGANISATION WHICH CLAIMS ITSELF TO BE THE GREATEST CHAMPION OF WOMEN RIGHTS.WORLD OVER U.N. HAS TAKEN OVER THE RESPONSIBILITY OF LIBERATING WOMEN, BRINGING THEM ON STREETS FROM THE CONFINES OF THERE HOMES,