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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Too bad, Obola.
and he’s 200% Socialist
Wow! A Socialist that out-Socialists 0bama!
Who’da Thunk? *SMIRK*
Call me paranoid but I think I see where this is going.
AAAWWW poor BillyJeff or Barky didn’t make it.../s
He also served for a time as President of the Socialist International.
Doesn’t matter. We’ll be withdrawing from that collection of misfits and tyrants early next year.
They will never pick someone from the U.S.
BFD
UN high commissioner of refugees for 10 years. Okay....and where I we going with that??
They all are. A bunch of worthless POS control freaks. The U in Un’ stands for USELESS.
;)
I hope o. Kick them out and make their new building in venezuela.
Global Warming scam , Done
Now to move on to Global Government
April 1, 2017: Secretary of State John Bolton appears at UN HQ in NYC and tells the General Assembly the USA is withdrawing its financial support and to get their clown parade out of the country instamatically!
None of the permanent members of the Security council can be SecGen of the UN.
That hasn’t stopped them from trying though.............Clinton, Gorbachev, Carter etc............
His dream is to one day have an abortion. That is the highest sacrament of a leftist.
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