Ex-Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister of Moldova Natalia Gherman was fielded for the post of United Nations Secretary-General by the Government of Moldova. Natalia Gherman is the sixth candidate registered so far, IPN reports.

Prime Minister Pavel Filip sent an official letter to the UN administration, which was published on the organization’s website. It says that Natalia Gherman is an exceptional diplomat, while her leadership skills are known at national and international levels. Among her accomplishments are the impressive negotiation and signing of the Association Agreement and the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement between Moldova and the EU.

Natalia Gherman’s opponents are the UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova, Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Vesna Pusić, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Montenegro Igor Lukšić, and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Macedonia Srdjan Kerim.

The examination of the applicants will take place in July. The term in office of the current UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ends this December. So far the post of UN Secretary-General has never been held by a woman and this never represented a country from Eastern Europe.