Eduard Kukan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, had an interview with the Associated Press, which is a respectable US/>/> based news agency, when he admitted he nurtured some thoughts about….becoming the next…UN Secretary General.
Let’s not debate the quite unclear role that a gigantic and relatively inefficient institution such as the UN has in today’s world. I just wonder whether the General Assembly would enjoy a Secretary General who lacks charisma, still reads his speeches from papers at conferences and meetings, hasn’t really cleared allegations concerning his past relation with the communist secret police and keeps on repeating a sort of joke about how foreigners tell him that Slovakia is the tiger from the Tatras while he answers (usually he laughs here) that there are no tigers in the Tatras.
In my humble opinion Mr. Kukan should first tour the Slovak embassies abroad (abroad means more than London/>/>, Paris/>/> or Washington/>/>) and see how they look like and what kind of personnel they have there.
But of course everybody has the right to have his/her own ambitions. And Mr. Kukan definitely has some qualities, for example, he plays tennis well. That’s why he has been very happy that Slovakia/>/>’s Davis Cup team managed to qualify for the final which will take place in Bratislava/>/>. That’s a wonderful opportunity to promote this country abroad. The only problem is that I thought that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was the main institution in charge with promoting Slovakia/>/> abroad.
And wouldn’t be wonderful that an institution such as the United Nations that deals with 191 countries around the world might be led by the representative of a country that has been signing and negotiating secret treaties with the Vatican aiming at making Christianity (I don’t say Catholicism because Pavol Hrusovsky has been convincing us that a similar document is/will be signed with other churches too) a supreme criteria in deciding how schools should be organized and how hospitals and courts should work?
By the way, Monday October 24 is the United Nations Day, tak vsetko najlepsie k narodeninam!
