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To the members of the Security Council and the General Assembly:

We the peoples of the United Nations, concerned global citizens, demand an end to the secret process for appointing the Secretary General. We demand a timely and structured process, a clear and public selection criteria, and a list of candidates with clear policy platforms. The Security Council should propose more than one candidate to the General Assembly to choose from, and the Secretary-General should be appointed to a single and non-renewable seven-year term. The current process is inexcusable, and we won't wait another four years to fix it.
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We feel it in our bones. 70% of us feel the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced are being faced right now, and we desperately need to come together as one people to meet them.

The spectre of world war caused our great-grandparents to create the United Nations for this purpose, and it has since saved *hundreds of millions* of lives from starvation and preventable disease, and helped bring and keep peace in over 100 wars.

But power-jealous nations have kept the UN weak by choosing weak leaders - mild bureaucrats who never challenge them. And they're about it do it again, affecting almost every issue we care about.

With world leaders converging on New York this month, the next leader of the UN is being chosen right now, in the back-rooms of power. Let's raise a massive call for an open, professional process to choose the best leader from all 7 billion of us. Some nations are already calling for change, but powerful countries like the US and France don't believe the public cares about this. Let's show them how wrong they are with a million voices to save the UN.

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