"The choice of Salih is simply a surprise to everyone in the UN" - he said Simon Holovnia. erstwhile Iraqi president Barham Ahmed Salih was appointed UN advanced Commissioner for Refugees. According to Holownia, this decision means no choice for Europe and points to the mediate East as a centre of policy against exile crises.
On Friday, Reuter's agency announced that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres set up a Kurdish politician, Former Iraqi president Barham Ahmed Salih as UN advanced Commissioner for Refugees. respective candidates applied for this position, including among others. Simon Holovnia, until late the Marshal of the Polish Parliament, and present the Deputy Marshal. In November - as diplomatic sources then passed - Holovnia was on the so-called. a short list and was considered 1 of the 3 main candidates for the post.
The United Nations Secretary-General's harrowing decision commented on Friday on Facebook. According to him, Salih's election for this post is "a surprise to most likely everyone in the UN, in the NGO environment, and in UNHCR itself". For, as he stressed, this candidate participated in the run "in a reasonably limited way (mainly remotely)". As he noted, Iraq is not even a organization to the 1951 exile position Convention, which is the foundation of the UNHCR mandate.
Simon Holovnia commented on the UN decision
However, according to Holownia, this choice is primarily "not the choice of Europe", and especially candidates from Spain and Germanywho, together with their countries, have invested a lot in fighting for this function. Hołownia added that Guterres' decision was besides an indication that this "near East is present a place that should set the speech of planet policy against exile crises".
"Congratulations to the winners and declaring the willingness to support each episode, I am aware of the critical challenges it will face. The stakes of his word will be the survival, or not, of the organization" - noted Hołownia. As he added, UNHCR it is in a very deep crisis today, due to the fact that budgets have been cut down and there are 5,000 people in UNHCR alone to be released.
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In Holown's assessment, the biggest challenge for the organization is not "academic discussion on the definitions of refugees (as any counter-candidates have seen), and morale in the organization, belief in its future". He pointed out that in his run he talked about the request to start by restoring religion in himself to the team, setting a common way for decades.
Hołownia emphasized that this run is simply a large work of the Polish President, Prime Minister and MFA. The Deputy Marshal thanked the Deputy Prime Minister, Head of the MFA Radosław Sikorski, Deputy Minister SZ Robert Kupiecki, manager of the Department of Global Affairs Agata Dudzie-Fłonce with the MFA along with the team. He besides thanked the Polish abroad Service, drawing attention to the work of Ambassadors Krzysztof Szczerski from fresh York City and Mirosław Broiło from Geneva together with their teams.
He besides stated that the campaigns of the remaining candidates lasted for 2 years, and his "short, three-month charge" were dozens of meetings at which he reminded the planet of Poland's achievements in issues specified as: accepting refugees from Ukraine, or Poland's increasing commitment to helping in human tragedies in Lebanon, Sudan, Yemen.
Simon Holovnia in the race for the seat of UN advanced Commissioner for Refugees
According to Holownia, his start on the UN advanced Commissioner for Refugees has contributed to "requesting for Poland's rightful place, not only at the European but besides at the global table". As he added, it was besides "witting decision-makers how dramatically underrepresented Poland in European and global institutions". "To not look far distant - our neighbors beat us on the head there" - indicated Poland's leader 2050. "We came very high, we wiped trails and we knocked down doors that had been closed for Poland so far" - stressed Deputy Marshal of the Sejm.
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In his opinion, this work will bear fruit. "If not today, then tomorrow, if not in my fight, then in the efforts of another Polish or Polish to make the planet realize that with us, with our knowledge, experience, it will truly be easier for him. And that we truly are a nation of Solidarity not only by large 's' - he noted.
The holovnia thanked everyone who supported him in his struggles, and - as he pointed out - "all the haters" who enabled him to scope a wider scope of audiences, and made recruitment to the UN for the first time in Poland "like the Race of Peace".
At the end of his entry, he stressed that now in the free time for French learning. "Because having mastered English, having passed out of Italian, and communicating someway in Russian - the language of Wolter, de Gaulle (...) I neglected" - he stressed. "So, although I will not become Commissioner, I have a plan for old age: I will become a polyglot" - he added.
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