Rebecca Greenspan leads a straw poll of the Security Council for the UN Secretary General with 11 votes of encouragement Greenspan, former Vice President of Costa Rica, received 4 discouraging votes, her best result in seven voting rounds in recent months. Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, came in second place with 9 encouraging, 4 discouraging and 2 having no opinion. Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Guyana's representative at the UN, came in third place with 8 encouraged, 6 discouraged and 1 with no opinion. Lana Nusayeva, the candidate of the United Arab Emirates, was fourth with 7 votes of encouragement, 6 of discouragement and 2 of no opinion.