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When Ban Ki-Moon steps down in 2017, it is eastern Europe’s turn.

當(dāng)2017年潘基文卸任的時(shí)候，就輪到東歐人上場(chǎng)了。

BACK in the days of Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, a British comedian joked that the prime qualification for becoming UN secretary-general was to have a long and hard-to-pronounce name. Since custom dictates that the job rotates between regions and it is now the turn of Eastern Europe, a region with many splendidly difficult names, you might think that the rule would be fulfilled. Perhaps not.

Both of the leading candidates are women from Bulgaria. Both have names that are pronounced more or less as their English transliterations indicate. But the question of which one Bulgaria’s government will nominate is already causing political turbulence at home.

回想布特羅斯·布特羅斯-加利和哈維爾·培雷茲·德奎利亞爾在任的時(shí)候，一個(gè)英國(guó)喜劇演員戲說(shuō)要想成為聯(lián)合國(guó)秘書長(zhǎng)，你得首先有一個(gè)又長(zhǎng)又難拼的名字。由于有秘書長(zhǎng)這一職位要在地區(qū)間輪流做的習(xí)俗，所以現(xiàn)在輪到東歐了。而東歐有著許多極其難拼的名字，所以你可以認(rèn)為這個(gè)“規(guī)則”又要應(yīng)驗(yàn)了。但也許并沒(méi)有。這兩個(gè)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)候選人均為保加利亞女性。她倆的名字均和她們的英譯名差不多。但是保加利亞政府將任命她倆中的哪一位，這一問(wèn)題已經(jīng)在國(guó)內(nèi)引起了政客圈內(nèi)的騷動(dòng)。

Secretaries-general of the United Nations cannot propose or veto binding legislation, order troops into battle or issue executive orders. But they can sometimes set the agenda or mediate between warring parties. So for small countries that crave a bit of global influence, placing one of their citizens in the UN’s top job is a coveted prize. Ban Ki-Moon’s second term as secretary-general ends in 2017, and the race to succeed him is already under way.

聯(lián)合國(guó)秘書長(zhǎng)不可以提出或禁止相關(guān)的法律法規(guī)，不可以命令軍隊(duì)進(jìn)入戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)，也不可以執(zhí)行行政命令。但是他們有時(shí)可以設(shè)定日程或者對(duì)戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)雙方進(jìn)行調(diào)解。所以對(duì)于渴求產(chǎn)生一點(diǎn)國(guó)際影響力的小國(guó)家來(lái)說(shuō)，把他們?nèi)嗣裰械囊粏T捧到聯(lián)合國(guó)的最高位置是他們求之不得的事情。潘基文的第二期任職將會(huì)在2017年結(jié)束，而繼任者的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)已經(jīng)開(kāi)始了。