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DANILO TÜRK - NESLAVEN ODHOD IZ ZDRUŽENIH NARODOV
Turk je bil do leta 2005 eden od 6 pomočnikov generalnega sekretarja ZN (Assistant Secretary General) - na to mesto pa je prišel zato, ker je bil prej ambasador Slovenije v ZN, potem pa je, ko je Slovenija dobila mesto v Varnostnem svetu ZN za dve leti deloval znotraj visokih političnih krogov in si ustvaril dovolj povezav, da je prišel v sekretariat ZN na to funkcijo.
On 6 January 2000, following the successful completion of the Slovenian membership in the Security Council, Mr. Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, appointed Dr. Danilo Türk as Assistant Secratary-General for Political Affairs. Dr. Türk assumed his current position on 1 February 2000. (VIR:
http://www.un.int/slovenia/turk.html)
Junija 2005 je upal, da ga bo generalni sekretar ZN povišal in izbral za "pod generalnega sekretarja" (under-secretary general).
To se ni zgodilo, Kofi Anaan je izbral Gambarija, ki je imel sicer daljši diplomatski staž od Turka, bil pa je tudi že minister za zunanje zadeve.
Turk je tedaj (junija 2005) pisal pisma in pošiljal elektronska sporočila po ZN v katerih je javno izrazil jezo in ogorčenje nad Anaanovo odločitvijo. Gambarija je označil za "outsiderja" in nekoga z veliko manj izkušnjami kot jih je imel sam ter protestiral tej izbiri pod generalnega sekretarja. To je opisano tudi na avtorski internetni strani UN INSIDE, ki je dostopna na internetu:
UN FORUM / iz internetne strani osebja ZN (
www.unforum.com) katerega urednik je bivši asistent generalnega sekretarja ZN Samir Sanbar, kjer je jasno kako se je Turkov zgodba končala:
"TURK OR NO TURK:
Pity that Danilo Turk sulked noisily when he did not get the job of Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs . Good for Lublijana that he is returning to teach at its university. (Our regards to Professor Bohte, if still there.) Unbecoming, however, to publicly protest the appointment of Ibrahim Gambari by giving obviously wrong reasons. He claimed that the Nigerian diplomat was an outsider, yet Gambari had joined the Secretariat in 1999 before Turk. Both had served their respectable countries well as Permanent Representative, although Gambari has a longer diplomatic seniority, having served as ambassador (and Foreign Minister) since 1990 . Also, while at the same Department for Political Affairs, Gambari held the rank of Under-Secretary General while Turk was Assistant Secretary General. The fact that there were powerful inside forces pressuring for Mr. Turk"s designation should be a cause of satisfied personal accomplishment, not public frustrated complaint . Ambassador Turk has made many friends and admirers while at the Security Council and elsewhere. It would be valuable for him to maintain these hard won relationships. They may come in handy when he wishes to try and resume his role with the U.N. as he has somehow cryptically indicated. Does that mean he intends to run for Secretary General? If so, would he not need some African support?"
Ta poteza je v ZN močno odmevala, Turk je napravil diplomatski "faux pas," ki mu je po mnenju diplomatov v ZN končal kariero v ZN. "V ZN to vsi vedo. Turk je namreč pokazal, da nima dobrega političnega instinkta, še najbolj pa se jim je zameril s svojo aroganco," je povedal zanesljiv vir iz Združenih narodov, ki dodaja: >Če bi bil Turk predsednik bi imeli za predsednika nekoga, ki bo z visokega prestola gledal dol na uboge Slovenčke - za njih pa še nikoli ni ničesar naredil.<
Ker je tako javno nasprotoval odločitvam njegovih šefov (Anaana in Gambarija), se je zameril predvsem afriškim državam, ni imel več zadostne podpore, da bi ostal na mestu asistenta generalnega sekretarja. Julija 2005 se je vrnil v Slovenijo kot profesor na pravni fakulteti. Septembra 2005 je Anaan na njegovo mesto imenoval novega asistenta generalnega sekretarja.
Mr. Türk, who was Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs from February 2000 to July 2005, has returned to Slovenia where he resumed his career as a professor of international law. 22 September 2005 - Secretary-General Kofi Annan today appointed two veteran United Nations female staff members to high-level positions - Angela Kane of Germany as Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, to replace Danilo Türk. (VIR:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=15)
Noel