BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's Surakiart Sathirathai, Southeast Asia's candidate to lead the United Nations, said on Wednesday he would work to make the U.N. more accountable after an oil-for-food scandal showed a "culture of mismanagement".
Surakiart, a Harvard-educated lawyer and deputy prime minister, has made management reform a key part of his pitch on some 50 trips abroad since announcing his bid to succeed Kofi Annan a year ago.
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