António Guterres back in 1977 when he resembled Pancho Villa António Guterres , the former Portuguese prime minister, will be the next UN secretary general, after the security council agreed he should replace Ban Ki-moon at the beginning of next year. In a rare show of unity, all 15 ambassadors from the security council emerged from the sixth in a series of straw polls to announce that they had agreed on Guterres, who was UN high commissioner for refugees for a decade, and that they would confirm the choice in a formal vote on Thursday. “Today after our sixth straw poll we have a clear favourite and his name is António Guterres,” the Russian UN ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, told reporters with his 14 council colleagues standing behind him. “We have decided to go to a formal vote tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock, and we hope it can be done by acclamation.” ( theguardian.com ) UN Special Envoy for Refugees and actress Angelina Jolie, right, and then-UN High Co...