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EXPLAINED: Candidates to lead un set for televised debate - The Real Truth

The candidates to succeed outgoing UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, clockwise from upper left: former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet; Costa Rican economist Rebeca Grynspan; former Senegalese president Macky Sall; former Ecuadorian foreign minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa; Rafael Mariano Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency; and former Guyana foreign minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett. (Photo: AFP)

UNITED NATIONS - The six candidates for United Nations secretary-general will debate on Thursday in the General Assembly Hall, one week before the formal start of a selection process crucial to an organisation in deep crisis.

With the campaign lacking a clear favourite and struggling to generate real enthusiasm, the hopefuls will face 90 minutes of questions from diplomats, UN employees and civil society representatives at an event starting at 5pm New York time and broadcast by Bloomberg.

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