Merkel declined Guterres' offer to work: she would not take up a role at the United Nations

The Paper's reporter Nan Boyi intern Su Yangzhe

On January 19, local time, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel refused the job invitation of UN Secretary-General Guterres and will not serve as the chairman of the UN High Advisory Board.

In a phone conversation with Guterres last week, Merkel thanked the latter for providing her with the opportunity to work at the United Nations, but said she would turn down the job offer, Reuters reported on Jan. 19. Guterres wrote to Merkel to extend the invitation, hoping to chair the United Nations High-Level Advisory Committee on Global Public Goods. This reform project is one of guterres' flagship unhauled projects to identify areas for improvement and governance in global public goods and other common interests, with a focus on the oceans, vaccines, the ozone layer and other areas, with a view to revitalizing multilateralism and strengthening global cooperation.

On December 8, 2021 local time, Schoelz, a member of the German Social Democratic Party, was elected as the new German chancellor through the election of the federal parliament, and was officially handed over to Merkel, and Merkel's sixteen-year term as chancellor ended.

After Merkel stepped down as Chancellor of Germany, little was known about her life after retirement. Beate Baumann, who served as Merkel's chief of staff for many years, said in an interview with Germany's Der Spiegel magazine in an interview that he was co-authoring a political memoir with Merkel to explain her important political decisions, According to the German news agency on December 10.

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