WILL SOVIET EX-PRESIDENT BECOME A NEW UN CHIEF?








MOSCOW, March 1. /From RIA Novosti's Galina Baryshnikova/. The Social Federalist Party of Russia has suggested nominating Soviet ex-president Mikhail Gorbachev for the post of the United Nations Secretary General, said party chairman Sergei Shilov. The next UN election is to be held in December. 


	 According to Shilov, the idea to nominate Gorbachev arises from the Russian Federalists' vision of the UN's new tasks, prompted by the process of the world's globalization. 


	 Shilov said that the organization's activity is now focused on political, economic and post-industrial tasks. Whereas Gorbachev, being the carrier of  "a new thinking," could re-orient the UN to involve Russia's humanitarian, scientific and artistic capital in the globalization. 


	In Shilov's opinion, the Russia should not miss its chance. But Gorbachev's nomination will not be possible unless Russia's public and government and Europe's mass media provide their support for him, he stressed.