Napier, MSCNewsWire, 15 May 2016 - Only a president Donald Trump can clear the way for former New Zealand premier Helen Clark to become secretary general of United Nations.

The reason for this ironic state of affairs is that of the current contenders in the United States presidential election only a President Trump is likely to lift the embargo by the United States and its military allies such as New Zealand currently blockading Russia.

Russia is a member of the Security Council of the United Nations and will exercise its veto on any citizen, let alone a former prime minister, of any country participating in the blockade against it.

No member of any US-aligned defence pact country has ever become secretary general of United Nations.

In New Zealand and in the excitable media atmosphere surrounding the Clark possibility this point is ignored and for several reasons.

The first is the officially-encouraged blackout on any coverage of the effects and repercussions of New Zealand’s participation in the United States led Russian blockade.

The second is the failure to comprehend, even in official circles, the Security Council veto power which ensures that secretary generals are drawn from non US-aligned nations.

To be fair there is another background reason. It stems from the acting and caretaker role in the formation of the UN in its very early months of British diplomat Gladwyn Jebb. This was immediately prior to the election of the first secretary general Norwegian Trygve Lie.

Mr Trump’s core policy is to ensure that the children of Middle Americans can find work and this means dismantling any contrary policy such as trade embargoes.Mr Trump has employed females as project engineers in his construction business.

Russia, which will be required to drop its veto in any successful Clark candidature, was for example the first nation to routinely appoint female master-mariners to its deep sea merchant marine.

Miss Clark currently a UN agency head meanwhile historically tends to see her path to any desired objective as taking the form of a straight line.

It was thus that she found herself sandbagged by an organisation which she had every reason to believe was on her side.

This was The (Manchester) Guardian which lured Miss Clark into an interview, egged her on to confess, that, yes, she did believer herself a fit person to be the next secretary general of the United Nations.

Then the point-of-view periodical which wordily and repetitively advocates the very policies that Miss Clark in fact actually implemented in New Zealand proceeded righteously in an editorial to castigate her for actively campaigning for the secretary-general job.

With friends like The Guardian, Miss Clark might just need ..........The Donald