As the first important criteria of Secretary-General is need to perform well in negotiating with numerous members state or nation as well as the Security Council. Effective negotiators needed to able to visualize and build solutions. Although the Secretary-General is the leader of United Nations, but issues that related with the international security and peace is still handled by the Security Council. This is very obviously that an unambiguously subordinate relationship between the Secretary-General and the Council is much more complicated and fluid. Based on the previous experience of Iraq war, the Secretary-General would be in difficult situation as the confrontation between the Iraq and the Security Council. Even though Iraq came to ask the Secretary-General for help, but the authority in-charged with the international cases is the Security Council. Therefore, the Security-General need to maintain his/her stand of view in a line with the Council. The commitment and negotiator role would be definitely essential so that United Nations still can manage as whole. In the middle of member states and the Security Council,
Controlled but determined strength character and vision
The foresight of Secretary-General is very crucial in United Nations as this can foresee the performance and development of UN in stronger the organizations as well as complete the mission and vision. ‘If you failed to plan, then you plan to fail’, based on this proverb can prove that the future of UN is depend on the member of UN, especially the leader of UN—the Secretary-General. Hence, the ability and capability of Secretary-General on managing the development of UN is exactly vital as it will influence the destiny of UN. Controlled but determined strength is highly expected in the characteristics of Secretary-General.
For example, in the case of Syria refugee issues that happened as the result and consequences of war and terrorist, UN should be expected and able to foresee so that the preventive methods can be taken. As the prevention is better than cure, UN can deal with refugee problem in good condition under the guidance of Secretary-General.
Highly-developed analytical intellect can mostly predict the future as far as possible perfectly. It is no doubt that this can more develop and increase the accuracy of prediction so the target or goal can be achieved in order to stabilize the influence and recognition of UN. Apart from that, acquiring with this
Possess strong and outstanding communication skill with language proficiency
It is undeniable that our future Secretary-General must possess excellent speaking skills especially public speaking, delivering speeches and talk or even debating. Secretary-General plays as a spokesperson in front of public, thus well speaking tactics and language proficiency are the basics and primary ability. For example, the Secretary-General is the one who need to report and announced the progress and decision of United Nations among public and media.
Nonetheless, the responsibility not only focus on the duty of spokesperson , but also need to build up strong human relationship between member states as well as communicate with other departments or organizations. Before made up any
Diplomatic skill and techniques
Based on the refugee problem, it is definitely to say diplomatic skill is an essential key. With facing huge refugee, Secretary-General need to have greater diplomatic efforts to find solutions to the conflicts and abuses driving people from their homes. Even though the settlement can be solved, but it is hard to control the increasing number of refugees arrived on Europe’s shores. If Europe erected barriers and closed doors, the rest of world would do likewise. Thus, it is the highlight time for the Secretary-General to diplomat with Europe Union in order to tackle the massive refugee problem.
Building and maintaining coalitions across a wide range of issues are essential in order to avoid in the difficult situation.
Leadership ability and managerial skill such as adaptability, flexibility, and the ability to multitask are helpful in bilateral settings and essential in multilateral settings
With the rising of power terror parties ISIS, United States, Russia, France and other countries took the strategy which is sent army and soldiers, air strikes, special forces, and working with local forces who are now fighting to regain control of their own country. to invade the main gathering place which is located in East-middle countries. Innocent residents in East-middle countries had longer suffering chaos from the war from West countries and violence of Taliban.As the result, the action of repentance off ISIS made the residents lost their home and start fleeing to Europe countries. Huge batch of refugee flood into Europe countries illegally made them losing identity and even recognized as the terrorist mixed inside them.
Hence, Europe countries took different attitude and action in facing this knotty and troublesome because the refugee flood into Europe countries non-stop and continuously. From the data and statistics collected, 13 million refugees in the mid-2014 and the number of refugees in whole world still keep soaring upwards.
As the leader of UN, Secretary-General need to guide and solve the refugee problem flooded into other countries once the terrorist is not being caught and the presence of terrorism. Secretary-General had to help in order to ease the quantities of refugee and tackle the low living standard of refugee. The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) have to play their role to save and rescue refugees. First and foremost, UNHCR have to collect all the relevant data and information of refugee population so that all the necessary living items and product can be prepared immediately. After that, recruiting volunteer, worker, trained soldiers and medical team to be sent to refugee camp in order to give them necessary medical treatment to prevent any disease and influenza from spreading. Followed by the recruiting member of UNHCR, report with the latest and detailed information of refugee must be announced to public through every social media so that more donation can be collected in order to help them. However all these essential way can only help refugee temporary, UN should instill the proper knowledge and values to society so that whole society will against the bad like terrorism and war. If nobody gave terrorist financial and political support, then it may collapsed soon and automatically.
As this kind of issues is related to several countries, therefore the consequences of the issues is needed to handle well so that Secretary-General would not in contradictory condition.