最新的草民调显示，在选出下一任联合国秘书长的过程中，七名候选人中没有一人获得联合国安理会五个常任理事国的全部支持。
The latest straw poll in the selection of the next U.N. secretary-general has shown that none of the seven candidates has the support of all five permanent members of the U.N.
埃迪斯·M·莱德勒 联合国 — — 周五进行的最新草民调显示，七名候选人中没有一人获得联合国安理会五个常任理事国的全部支持，而这五个国家都拥有否决权。
EDITH M. LEDERER UNITED NATIONS — The latest straw poll in the selection of the next U.N. secretary-general on Friday showed that none of the seven candidates has the support of all five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, all of whom have veto power.
这意味着，如果现有候选人中没有人能够赢得拥有否决权的成员国 — — 美国、俄罗斯、中国、英国和法国 — — 的支持，以接替已领导联合国近10年的安东尼奥·古特雷斯，那么新候选人仍有机会。
This leaves the door open for new candidates if none of the current candidates is able to win over the veto-wielding members — the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France — in the race to succeed António Guterres who has led the United Nations for almost 10 years.
与之前五次草民调一样，安理会的15个成员对七名候选人投出“鼓励”或“劝阻”票，或表示“无意见”，但这一次的秘密投票是首次使用红色选票来区分五个大国的投票。
As in five previous straw polls, the 15 council members voted to “encourage” or “discourage” the seven candidates or express “no opinion,” but this secret poll was the first to use red ballots to distinguish votes from the five powers.
根据两位要求匿名的外交官透露（因投票为私密进行），领先的三名候选人 — — 来自哥斯达黎加的联合国贸易主管雷贝卡·格林斯潘，来自阿根廷的联合国核事务主管拉斐尔·格罗西，以及圭亚那的联合国大使卡罗琳·罗德里格斯·伯克特 — — 都各收到了两张红色的“劝阻”票。
The three leading candidates— U.N. trade chief Rebeca Grynspan of Costa Rica, U.N. nuclear chief Rafael Grossi of Argentina, and Guyana’s U.N. ambassador, Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett — all received two red “discourage” votes, according to two diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity because the poll was private.
格林斯潘曾任哥斯达黎加副总统，她以九张“鼓励”票继续领先于其他候选人。
Grynspan, a former Costa Rican vice president, remained at the top of the polling with nine “encourage” votes.
虽然尚不清楚每个安理会成员具体投了什么票，但多名美国官员在过去几周内明确表示，从特朗普政府的角度来看，这些候选人都不理想。该政府一直在推动对全球组织进行激进改革，并计划让美国退出多个联合国机构。
While it was not known how each council member voted, numerous U.S. officials have made clear for the past several weeks that none of the candidates is ideal from the perspective of the Trump administration. It has focused on radical reform of the global body and the withdrawal, or planned withdrawal, of the United States from multiple U.N. agencies.
然而，尽管特朗普政府与联合国及其官僚体系存在分歧，并且对谁应该成为下一任秘书长持保留意见，这些官员并未排除支持已宣布候选人中的一人的可能性。
However, despite the administration’s differences with the U.N., its bureaucracy, and reservations about who the next secretary-general should be, the officials have not ruled out supporting one of the announced candidates.
这些官员出于匿名条件讨论内部审议时表示，美国的立场仍在完善之中，将在未来几天明确。
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said the U.S. position was still being refined and would be made clear in the coming days.
美国常驻联合国代表迈克·沃尔茨在离开闭门理事会会议时对记者表示，联合国需要“有力、充满活力的领导”，将这个拥有193个成员国的世界组织带回其最初关注和平与安全的焦点。
U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz told reporters as he left the closed council meeting that the U.N. needs “strong, energetic leadership” that is going to take the 193-member world body back to its original focus on peace and security.
“这个机构，在80年之后，试图成为每个人的一切，”沃尔茨说。“我们可以说，让它‘减肥’——每个人在‘减肥’之后都会好一些——并（需要）让它专注于和平与安全。”按传统，秘书长职位按地区轮换，目前轮到拉丁美洲。也有压力要求选出一位女性，她将成为联合国的首位女领导人。
“This institution, after 80 years, has tried to become everything to everyone,” Waltz said. “We put it on a diet so to speak — we’re all a little better off after being on a diet — and (need to) get it focused on peace and security.”By tradition, the job of secretary-general rotates by region, and this is Latin America’s turn. There also is pressure to pick a woman, who would become the first female leader of the U.N.
“我们理解地区轮换的愿望，”沃尔茨说。“当然，如果最佳候选人是女性，我们欢迎这一点——但我们真的只需要最佳候选人。”周五的非正式投票中，排名最后的两名候选人均为女性——分别是厄瓜多尔前联合国大会主席兼外长玛丽亚·费尔南达·埃斯皮诺萨，以及前厄瓜多尔大使伊沃内·A-巴基。两名非洲候选人——乌干达前联合国外交官奥拉拉·奥图努和塞内加尔前总统马基·萨尔——各获得10张“劝退”票。
“We understand there is a desire for regional rotation,” Waltz said. “Of course, if the best candidate is a woman, we would welcome that — but we really just need the best candidate.”The two candidates at the bottom of Friday’s straw poll were women — Maria Fernanda Espinosa, a former General Assembly president and foreign minister of Ecuador, and Ivonne A-Baki, a former Ecuadorian ambassador. Two African contenders — former U.N. diplomat Olara Otunnu of Uganda and Senegal’s former president, Macky Sall — each received 10 “discourage” votes.
两名外交官表示，下一轮使用红色选票的非正式投票将于下周举行。
The next straw poll, with red ballots, will be held next week, the two diplomats said.
沃尔茨和俄罗斯常驻联合国代表瓦西里·涅边贾都没有排除出现新候选人的可能性。
Waltz and Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia both left open the possibility of new candidates.
“我有信心，我们将在今年年底前完成这件事，”沃尔茨说。“这当然是我的愿望，”涅边贾说。
“We’re going to get this done, I’m confident, before the end of the year,” Waltz said. “That is my wish, definitely,” Nebenzia said.