Posted on 10/06/2016 10:58:35 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Security council agrees, in surprisingly quick decision, that former Portuguese PM will succeed Ban Ki-moon at start of 2017
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.”
The abrupt end to the UN leadership race came as a surprise. Many observers had expected the selection process to go on late into October as the major powers struggled to promote their favourite candidates. And some thought that Russia, currently holding the presidency of the security council, would block Guterres, as Moscow had said it wanted an eastern European in the top UN job.
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They can’t. UN SecGen cannot be from teh Security Council permanent member countries, Russia, US, France, Great Britain or China............
I thought Obama ‘had decided’ to take that position.
I guess the decision wasn’t his alone.
He may really be after heading up the International Monetary Fund.
Was there a single shred of evidence that made you think that?
I thought Obama ‘had decided’ to take that position.
Just watch Obama will get some work at the UN ,Crazy Insane work
Obolo never can be United Nations Secretary-General, thank heavens.
The position is filled from nominees presented by the UN Security Council to the UN body for a vote.
The appointee may NOT be a citizen of any of the 5 permanent Security Council member countries....and the US is a permanent member.
There is unspoken rule in the UN that they don’t pick members of the permanent security council.
Oh, Man! Bammy’s got NOTHIN’ on THIS guy, LOL! He’s so screwed.
Luckily, we still have a few months to go for 0bama to ‘socialize’ some other aspect of our lives, with Congress’ BLESSING, no doubt.
*SPIT*
Excellent news.
I had not realized that.
Nobama is just shittin’ his mom jeans over this one.
The 'bamster will give up his US citizenship - Happily! :^D
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