The offer came from the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, for Merkel to preside over a high-level body.
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has turned down a job offer at the United Nations, her office said Wednesday. Merkel stepped down as Germany’s chancellor after federal elections, after 16 years as Europe’s most powerful politician.
Merkel, 67, called UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres last week to thank him for the job he had offered her in a letter and tell him she would not take it, the office said without elaborating.
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German media reported that Guterres had offered Merkel the chairmanship of a high-level UN advisory body on global public goods, one of the secretary-general’s flagship reform projects. The body will focus on issues such as the ozone layer, vaccines and debris from outer space.
Merkel has stayed out of the public spotlight since handing over the German chancellorship to Olaf Scholz of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
According to the magazine The mirrorMerkel is working on a memoir, but little else is known about the former chancellor’s life in retirement. (I)
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