Reply #2: US Pres. (Bush) can appoint Ambassador to UN, NOT Secretary General of UN [View All]

[Divernan]

Also, as to international law, there is no binding precedent, and the UN could always amend it's Articles re eligibility.
ON EDIT: I haven't plowed through the UN Articles since law school (20 years ago), but I think what Pres. Clinton wants is to be Secretary General, and that office is filled by vote of 9 of the 15 members of the Security Council, 5 of which must be all the votes of the permanent members of the Sec. Council. I don't recall anything regarding limitations on that position re having been a head of state. Such a limitation would have to be in the UN Articles, and I don't think it is. If it WERE, those articles can be amended by a 2/3 vote of all UN member nations, including the five permanent members, and those votes would have to be ratified "back home" according to the governmental policies of each member state.

All that said, he would be a FANTASTIC Secretary General.