Former UN chief Ban Ki-moon said on Monday the next secretary general should serve a single, non-renewable seven-year term, arguing that the current convention of two five-year stints leaves the officeholder too reliant on the council’s five permanent members for reappointment.
“Two five-year terms leave the secretary general overly dependent on this council’s permanent members for an extension,” Mr Ban told the Security Council. A single term would free the UN leader from the subtle tyranny of reappointment, he added.
Slovenia, which holds the council presidency this month, convened an open debate on the role and qualities of the UN’s next leader, who will take office when Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s second term ends at the close of 2026.
Mr Ban urged member states to give the next UN leader stronger political backing to match the
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