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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><style> body { font-family: "Calibri","Slate Pro","sans-serif"; color:#262626 }</style> </head> <body style=""><div>‎Dear friends,<span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif;">I would like to let you know that the‎ first round of voting in the UN Secretary General race is scheduled to take place at 10am EST on Thursday, July 21st, in the Security Council.</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;">I would assume that within the next 24 hours, a formal instruction will be be sent from DC to US Mission to the UN with regard to which candidates to "encourage" on Thursday.</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;">Although we discussed this before, please allow me to remind you once again about the rules of procedure‎. There are 12 official candidates for UN Secretary-General, and every member of the Security Council will need to take a position on each one of them.</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;">Next to each candidates' name there will be 3 boxes: "Encourage", "Discourage" and "No Opinion". One of those boxes will need to be ticked for each and every one of the candidates. US will therefore (like every other Security Council member) choose to "encourage" a certain number of candidates - <b><u>i.e. </u></b><b><u>more than one</u>.‎ </b>This<b> </b>is going to be a secret ballot.</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;">Is there a way for you to check if the instruction has been sent already to New York‎, and of course more importantly, what is it with regard to myself?</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;">I'm arriving in New York on Wednesday afternoon.</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;">Many thanks in advance,</div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;">Vuk</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div>Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.</div></body></html>