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POSTAL ADDRESS-ADRESSE POSTALE: UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. 10017 CABLE ADDRESS -ADRESSE TELEGRAPHIQUE: UNATIONS NEWYORK

14 January 2016

Excellency,

Further to the joint letter of the President of the General Assembly and the President of the Security Council dated 15 December 2015 (Al70/623-S/2015/988), and in line with General

Assembly resolution 69/321, we have the honour to forward a communication received from the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Croatia to the United Nations presenting Ms. Vesna Pusi6 as a candidate for the position of Secretary-General.

Please accept, Excellency, the assurances of our highest consideration.

H.E. Mr. Mogens Lykketoft

President of the General Assembly

To all Permanent Representatives

to the United Nations New York

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~,_e, ',PERMANENT. M;ISSION OF TBI!>, RE~t.rQdC?r(;R~t~r~T.o.tii~t.1Nli~ri NATIQN$; ,

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The Permanent MissiolfOi the ,:Reltubltc6[ Cro'q#~tQjj1t~,OnJtedNati(ms present~its dompfiments to' Their Excellencies the p;'e~itli{rit,o:fthe.Q~h~r.aIAsse.mblyMr;' MogehsLykketofti ,and the Rre{fidento/ the SeQutity Council,U,..· EipiO:1?os$~iti;qfj4htif.uR(ihlhe tnsttuctlohQ!its Government/the hr.jfl'or to iflciudehei.(Mith'ciletler ,oJlJ.i~1t:kc'~ll.¢.nbyMr.Zot{iflMilah.OviC; the, Prime Urn/stet of the. Republic ofCroatiti,conternfijg:thWlJ9ipinaiitm·o!.fler Exc~/le.ncy Ms;, Y~snq , Pusic, the First Deputy Prime J4tnt$t~r.Ci.n4M.intstef,.ii{Fo~ti~~andE~topean, AffairS of the Republico! Croatia, for the post' afthe .secretary GeneraliJ!th¢,Unite4 Nation$.. , the r~su.me· o/Ms. Vesnfi Pusic IS annexed to this letter. " '

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Prof. Dr.sc.VESNA POSIC

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My professIonal career hasdeVElIopeoih three'$reas;

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Over timet .worked .. in tb~s~thr~e.areasconsecut,lveIY, but they l:l.lso ove~lapped and I had been actiVE:! In mor~thalldneareasln1ultaneously. My experience in one area definitely Informed anCflpftuen9~~my Work In the others, Which created more of a synergy than an orderlyC:hronology.

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My cicademlcand$Glent!fi~Careerstarted In 1975.andlasted until 2010. However, the lastl())yeats-2000 to,'2010 ... we're the years where I focuSed more (Jnpolitlc~/WhllestlIIteachingattheUnlverslty of Zagreb.·

My first NGO was aiso.theflrstfeminlst~roUPlnforiner Yugoslavia, which I started with 6QtherlA/()mepiri 1979~ Ih,19~,2 I co:"fbund.ed and became dlrectofof the ErasmLJ~ Gulld., anongoverl1~,ent, nqn-partisan think-tank for the cultureofdeI11Qcracy.rhethlnk-tCli1k was active from 1992 to'1998. In thatcap~c:lty ·lwClsthepl.lblis~erof ERASMUS, a journal promoting the c\.llture ofderoocraw; . . .' . .

I entered politlcsih>2000when I was .first electedanMP. I haVe since served both In the legislatiVe and the executive branches.·· .

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• In 1995/96IcQ.QrdIO~~p:~h;;:¢.m·P.lrl~~L.res¢arch ::pfOJe.cton'dOnilnant pollticalt reU~f()qsifa ,i#lf.YjW9rR;~~d,'E!'i'lY·1 r.c?nm:~~ta r vallies iii Croatia, which. W£!S a par(: of the gI9P~IWorldv.~/ueS£itv.eY$.tarted:17 :yearsear.li~r bythi:! Institute: of 'Soqlal, ·~El~¢at¢h. ·at.:the:lJniY~r~lty' Qf Michigan.' rhl$rI3S~arch became part ofalatger<ptoject :~ffolf hlGro~tla,entltl~d A New 'Agenda for a New Deirroqracy.· ...• . . .. . ..' . .

• .' wCJ.m.n ~nd :~~¢.ie,ty+ JrL197~, toget.tier wlthsixqther w.ome~>statted the·flrst· feitllh,st grol)p.ih,tM'fotrn.¢rY~g9$I~vi~,;A~ that time JEiiminlsrn. was seeri both. poiitlc~iJYahd,so¢J~JI.y:a~ v~ty'CQn~rqy~r~iai ;13.ut po.!ltltal.pressure and i;lttaCks: .. ~r.eated.theOpPQslte.· ~ffe<;t· a:n~ the'grqup attracteds!firilflcant IntetestanCtg-rew'q u.lckIY~.$ltjc~iat' ·tHat tlrri~N$os were UhkriQWhand none}(lst~l'!t rriY.4gdsl~vla~W~.:wer~,:~I$.p~s~e~~$lnega.l· and: threatened with· formalactlbh. The:droatlari>Sb~iol6.giCaiA~sodatiOCl offered' to host us as part: tir th~fractlYltl~~~n4.fhelnl~I~~iv~'$~r\fi"ed wlthl!1ttj~t framework.·It bec:~methE;! se'n1In~1 Wom~n'~and femliilstorganii~tloniritrb~tl~'fOryear:s to come. . '., . . .

~ Er"!$mu$ .Gulld '- in~99iJ cQ'~fo~h~ed and' 'became director of the ~ra$n1il§ GuiJd,~. ripng:overnml\'!nt,~pn~p~'rtls.an 'think-tank fcif :the culture ofdenio¢racy. fhethlrik~tan.k.wa~r?ictly~ from 19.92 to>.i998. Erasmus Guild pu~lish~d ap6Iitl~UQurrial~EAAs'Mus~ a series ofbboks on poiltlcal clIlture,demQcraqi a.n.c;lpoH~I¢altransltioo,as well a$organlzed a number

. of round-'tabhison varlQus,pplltltal '!)sues~·:An Ouractlvl.tles.focused .on advocating dialogue an.d fli1dhigpeacef~j solutions for the wars that at'that time rage(i In' Croatia andE3osnliH-ieriegdvina. We also provided a critical analysis of authorlt£uian regimes of the 1990sboth In Croatia and other

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1992 to 1997 -. n1~~ber of the Jolnf¢bmml,t~ee .forEa$tetnE~r()pe of the AmerICaJlCou~cil()f'L~arne.9S9cl¢tr~s.,M~~perofthe.ResearchCo.uncil of the International ~orumfor Democrati¢ Studies. ,

G .1 • have. lect,ur('3d .. at "the'Unlve~sItY8f '¢hicas§; .·the,Amerlcan • University, Was~ingtori, ·O.C;i The. NewSch9ol .. f9r>!:)ocic!lR~search,N,y,;'Cornell VnlversltYi IfHaCar,N,V.iThe Wilson. Center,. W9shlngton, .. ,D.C.; the International'"De.n10,crat1c ForlJll1' <WaShington, D.C;.tl1e, Foreign Service InstltutejU.S;Qept. of State aod.gavetalks·at a number of other European and American InstltutlOlls. '., . .

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• During the aCader't!lc'lear 1996197 I Was the'E,L,WfegandDistlngulshed VlsltlngPrQfessorof: D~moGrati.?:atlonat <Georget9wn University, . School of Foreign Service, Wqshirtgton, D;C. '.. . . . '.' '.

• Ispentth~acaqeml~ye~r 1984/a5i~tthe School of International Service; The Amerlc~n Unlv§lfsity, Washingtqn, D.C,~s aH. H.Humphrey Fellow .speCiallzlhginman~gemeht of hUman resourceS. .

• In 1980 I taY9Ktat theSl9~nSchool of M~nagelllent at M.!.T.(MCissachusettslnstituteofTechnology)

II Demoetac;es and Dlctator~hlps, Outieux, 1998 . ... The Leaders and theMiinqgers,Novl Uber,199Z. • Industtfal Democracy andCiv;i $oclety,Socl.6Iosko drustvo Hrvatske, 1986 ..

Other • Industrial Deinocracy1nf;utope, Clarendonflress, Oxfordi 1981. (co-author) .. European Industrial Relations, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981. (co'-author)

II Author of approximately 50 Scientific and professional articles In domestic and international journals .