France, April 23 -- During the three-hour hearing on Wednesday, the four candidates faced representatives from the 193 member states, and all pledged to continue reforming the organisation, whose stature has diminished in recent years.

During the public hearings, Sall outlined his vision for reform, through preventative diplomacy and streamlined organisational structures.

"Now is the time to do better with less," he said, with the aim of creating "a revitalised organisation that is able to see that its brightest days are ahead of it".

Senegal's Macky Sall faces rare public questioning in UN leadership race Four candidates

Sall, along with former Costa Rican Vice President Rebeca Grynspan, Chile's former President Michelle Bachelet and...