Indonesia reaffirms backing for Thai candidate as UN chief 
February 16, 2006
The Jakarta Post
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JAKARTA (AFP): Indonesia reaffirmed its support Wednesday for Thailand's proposed candidate as the next UN chief, a day after South Korea's foreign minister declared his candidacy for the position. 
Kofi Annan's second five-year term as UN secretary-general expires at the end of the year, and the Ghanian boss has said he should be replaced by an Asian to conform with regional rotation of the top job. 
South Korea's Ban Ki-Moon was the third Asian to declare his candidacy after Thai Deputy Prime Minister Surakiart Sathirathai and Sri Lanka's Jayantha Dhanapala, an adviser to PresidentMahinda Rajapakse. 
We, along with the other member countries of ASEAN, already have a commitment: that is to back Thailand's candidate, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Yuri Thamrin told AFP. 
Indonesia and Thailand are both members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations bloc, which also groups Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam.Asia has not had a UN chief since Myanmar's U Thant finished his second term in 1971.