The website, at http://www.vesnapusic.com.hr, contains her CV, her vision of the UN and details of the election procedure.
Pusic became an official candidate on January 15 by decision of the previous government. The other candidates for the post are: former Chairman of the UN General Assembly Srdjan Kerim of Macedonia, former Montenegrin Foreign Minister Igor Luksic, UNESCO Director Irena Bokova of Bulgaria, former Slovenian President Danilo Tuerk, former Moldovan Foreign Minister Natalia Gherman, former UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres of Portugal, and former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark.
To become UN Secretary-General, a candidate must receive more than 50 percent of votes, and all five permanent members of the Security Council must agree on one candidate whom then they will recommend to the General Assembly.
Informal interviews with the candidates will begin in mid-April and the name of the successor to the current Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, whose term expires at the of the year, could be known in September. According to the unwritten rule of rotation, which need not be observed, it is now the turn of a candidate from Eastern Europe to assume the position of Secretary General.
The candidacy of Vesna Pusic has provoked strong reactions in Croatia. President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic said last September that the government of Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic should have left the decision on the Croatian candidate for UN Secretary General to the new government, while the leader of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party, Tomislav Karamarko, said in January that her appointment was not in compliance with procedure.
Foreign Minister Miro Kovac told Hina in an interview in late January that the new government would soon take a position on Pusic's candidacy, but has not done so yet. "The way in which her candidacy was announced certainly was not in accordance with good practice in a democracy and did not do credit to Croatian politics or Croatian diplomacy," he said.