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Merkel, 67, called U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres last
week to thank him for the job he had offered her in a letter and
to tell him she would not accept it, the office said, without
elaborating.
German media reported that Guterres had offered Merkel the chair
of a high-level U.N. advisory body on global public goods, one
of his flagship reform projects. It will focus on issues
including the ozone layer, vaccines and outer space debris.
Merkel, a conservative, has stayed out of the political
spotlight since handing over Germany's chancellorship to Olaf
Scholz, a Social Democrat.
She is working on a political memoir with her long-time aide,
according to an interview in Der Spiegel, but little more is
known about Merkel's life in retirement.
(Reporting by Miranda Murray and Andreas Rinke; Editing by
Gareth Jones)
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