阿联酋周三提名其外交部官员拉娜·努赛贝赫参加联合国秘书长竞选，因为现有的六名候选人中无人脱颖而出成为明显的领跑者。拉娜·努赛贝赫是阿联酋外交部备受推崇的国务部长，此前曾担任阿布扎比常驻联合国代表。她在一份声明中说：“我参选秘书长，是因为我相信这是一个必须以更大紧迫感行动的时刻：更早采取行动，跨越分歧团结人们，并推动工作向前发展，直到产生切实成果。”
The UAE nominated Wednesday its foreign ministry official Lana Nusseibeh to run in the contest to lead the UN as none of the six existing candidates has emerged as a clear front-runner. Lana Nusseibeh is a well-regarded minister of state at the United Arab Emirates foreign ministry, having previously represented Abu Dhabi at the UN."I am standing to be Secretary-General because I believe this is a moment to act with greater urgency: to act earlier, bring people together across difference, and drive the work forward until it produces concrete results," she said in a statement.
在上周举行的最新一次非正式稻草投票中，旨在测算哪些候选人有机会成为下一任联合国秘书长，每位竞争者都实际上遭遇了否决。联合国安理会15个成员中有5个拥有否决权，可否决任何其无法接受的候选人，周五的投票中，所有七名候选人均至少获得了两张否决票。随后，一名候选人、塞内加尔的马基·萨勒退出了竞争。
In the latest informal straw poll held last week to gauge which candidates have a shot of becoming the next UN Secretary General, every contender received an effective veto. Five of the 15 members of the UN Security Council wield veto power and can shut down any candidate that is unacceptable to them, which happened Friday when all seven candidates received at least two vetoes. One candidate, Macky Sall of Senegal, subsequently dropped out.
这使得领跑者、哥斯达黎加的雷贝卡·格林斯潘——她在之前五轮投票中一直位居领先——与圭亚那前外长卡罗琳·罗德里格斯-比尔凯特并列领跑。其他参选者还包括阿根廷的拉斐尔·格罗西（现任联合国核监管机构负责人）、厄瓜多尔的伊沃娜·阿巴基和玛丽亚·费尔南达·埃斯皮诺萨，以及乌干达的奥拉拉·奥通努。
That left the frontrunner Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan who has been among the frontrunners in the five previous polls running alongside Guyanese ex-foreign minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett. Also in the race are Argentina's Rafael Grossi, the current head of the UN nuclear watchdog, Ecuador's Ivonne A-Baki and Maria Fernanda Espinosa, and Uganda's Olara Otunnu.
现任秘书长、葡萄牙的安东尼奥·古特雷斯将于2026年12月31日结束其第二个五年任期。即使候选人在安理会15票中获得所需的9票，也必须避免五大常任理事国的否决，而这些大国目前分歧深重。一旦候选人跨过这些门槛，其名字将提交由所有联合国成员国组成的大会确认。
The outgoing secretary-general, Antonio Guterres of Portugal, ends his second five-year term on December 31, 2026. Even if a candidate earns the required nine votes from the 15 available in the Security Council, they must also avoid a veto by the five major powers, which are deeply divided. Once a candidate clears those bars, their name will go to the General Assembly of all UN members for confirmation.
安理会稻草投票机制始于20世纪80年代初，旨在打破两名候选人均遭否决的僵局。尽管备受批评，这一非正式机制以各种形式延续至今。
The Security Council straw poll was devised in the early 1980s in an attempt to break a deadlock between two candidates shut down by vetoes. The informal mechanism has persisted, in various forms, despite criticism from countries opposed to the opaque process.
来自反对这一不透明程序的国家的批评。安理会15个成员国中的每一个都必须匿名给每位候选人贴上三个标签之一：“鼓励”、“不鼓励”或“无意见”。联合国最高职位应在不同地区间轮流担任，这是惯例。在此前提下，该职位此次应由一位来自拉丁美洲的候选人担任。
Each of the 15 Security Council members must anonymously assign each candidate one of three labels: "encourage," "discourage," or "no opinion." It is tradition that the UN's top job should rotate between different regions. Under that premise, the role should go to a candidate from Latin America this time.