Sri Lanka has formally submitted Jayantha Dhanapala, as a candidate to succeed Kofi Annan as UN secretary general, according to a letter seen on Thursday. The letter from Sri Lanka's UN Ambassador Prasad Kariyawasam to his Danish counterpart Ellen Loj, the UN Security Council president for June, noted that Dhanapala, currently an adviser to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse, has served 27 years in his country's diplomatic service and another 10 in senior UN management.
"It is the hope of the government of Sri Lanka that the Council will give favourable consideration to the candidature of Jayantha Dhanapala with a view to recommending to the General Assembly his appointment as secretary general of the United Nations with effect from January 1, 2007," it said. |