Türkiye has nominated OSCE Secretary-General Feridun H. Sinirlioğlu for the next U.N. secretary-general, Anadolu Agency reported, placing his candidacy in a process run through the Security Council and General Assembly.
Sinirlioğlu leads the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Anadolu separately reported that the Security Council held its seventh preliminary poll in the selection process.
The United Nations process assigns the initial recommendation to the 15-member Security Council; the General Assembly makes the appointment. A recommendation needs at least nine affirmative votes, and none of the five permanent members may veto it. Those members are China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
An OSCE biography records Sinirlioğlu as Türkiye’s foreign minister in 2015 and as the country’s U.N. representative between 2016 and 2023. It dates his appointment as OSCE secretary-general to December 2024.
The U.N.’s joint nomination letter records that the United Arab Emirates nominated Lana Zaki Nusseibeh on Oct. 21. EconoTimes previously covered the UAE’s nomination. The Security Council must recommend a candidate before the General Assembly can make the appointment.
