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| 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)
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| UN Special Envoy for Refugees and actress Angelina Jolie, right, and then-UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres, left, brief the UN Security Council on Syria's refugee crisis, Friday, April 24, 2015. |