Shashi Tharoor For UN Secretary General

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India names Shashi Tharoor for UN secy-general’s post


<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->He faces strong competition from South Korean foreign minister Ban Ki-Moon, Thai Deputy Prime Minister Surakiart Sathirathai and Sri Lankan diplomat Jayantha Dhanapala. If elected, he will be the youngest secretary-general of the world body. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Past UN Sec Gen:
Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Egypt), who held office from January 1992 to December 1996;
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (Peru), who served from January 1982 to December 1991;
Kurt Waldheim (Austria), who held office from January 1972 to December 1981;
U Thant (Burma, now Myanmar), who served from November 1961, when he was appointed acting Secretary-General (he was formally appointed Secretary-General in November 1962) to December 1971;
Dag Hammarskjöld (Sweden), who served from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in Africa in September 1961; and
Trygve Lie (Norway), who held office from February 1946 to his resignation in November 1952
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