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Poverty + Development

Portugal’s Antonio Guterres Poised To Become Next UN Secretary-General

Guterres was previously PM of Portugal and head of the UN's refugee agency.

October 5, 2016
by CNN/

(CNN) Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres is poised to become the next United Nations secretary-general, after the 15 Security Council members agreed to put his name forward to a formal vote.

Guterres, who was head of the UN’s refugee agency for ten years until 2015, emerged as the Security Council’s runaway favorite after the latest in a series of straw polls on Wednesday.
Vitaly Churkin, Russian Ambassador to the UN and current Security Council president, told reporters that Guterres would face a vote in the UN Security Council on Thursday.
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