In an exclusive video interview, Evangelos Sekeris, Greece’s permanent representative to the United Nations, spoke to PassBlue recently on key issues shaping his country’s agenda as a new elected member of the Security Council. Topics covered include: why a woman should be the next leader of the UN; the value of the women, peace and security policy; and how Europe is striving toward unity amid the Trump administration’s cold-shouldering. Sekeris, who spoke as Greece assumed the monthly rotating presidency of the Council in May, said that although time is long overdue for a woman to be the next UN secretary-general, if “qualified male candidates think they are able to present a candidacy, they will do it. I mean, the membership has to agree. But certainly, the tide is for a woman.”