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Helen Clark EXCLUSIVE: The former New Zealand PM is ready to lead the world

Former New Zealand PM Helen Clark is a favourite for UN Secretary-General and this month she tells The Weekly why she's going for the top job.

Helen Clark, the former New Zealand Prime minister colloquially known to a generation of Kiwis as โ€˜Aunty Helenโ€™, has told The Australian Womenโ€™s Weekly in an exclusive interview why she believes she is the best woman for the job as UN Secretary-General.

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โ€œWe live in a troubled world with huge inequalities,โ€ she says. โ€œThere is discrimination and marginalism, there is a lot of conflict.

โ€œMy argument has been, with the world the mess is in, you need someone with a leader profile who can really take the organisation forward.โ€

And Helen might just be the right woman for the job. Sheโ€™s already the number three ranked bureaucrat at the United Nations with an impressive track record as the Administrator of the UN Development Programme tacking poverty and sustainability world-wide.

While she is widely acknowledged as one the front runners for the job, to be decided in October, some believe it should go to a leader from Eastern Europe.

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She declined to comment on the suitability of Kevin Rudd as a candidate, nor would she comment on her own chances of success. โ€œIโ€™m acknowledged as a very serious candidate, but in the end, this is about geopolitics,โ€ she says.

You can read Helen Clarkโ€™s full interview in the September issue of The Australian Womenโ€™s Weekly, on sale August 4.

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