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Antonio Guterres has Security Council support to become next UN Secretary General

Wednesday, October 5th 2016 - 17:05 UTC
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Portugal’s former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres has unofficially been selected as the next U.N. Secretary-General. He is expected to be officially endorsed in the coming days. Following a decisive round of voting Wednesday in the U.N. Security Council, the veteran politician and diplomat prevailed with 13 votes in favor of his candidacy, none objecting to it and two votes of “no opinion”. Read full article

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  • Marti Llazo

    So which of the UN Security Council voting members do you suppose provided the vetoes of Malacara?

    She did even worse than Helen Clark on the “encourage” votes.

    Sigh. All that lameculeando that Malacara did was for naught.

    And making public statements showing her disapproval of fundamental democratic processes could not have helped.

    Oct 05th, 2016 - 10:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Britworker

    You cant have a Secretary General of the UN who does not believe in Self-determination. The thought of having yet another Argentine woman ranting on about that Malvinas thing day in day out, I guess put a lot of people off in the end.

    Oct 06th, 2016 - 06:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brit Bob

    She was still coming to terms with the usurpation and all those UN resolutions.

    It was hard to get her head around the facts: https://www.academia.edu/21721198/Falklands_1833_Usurpation_and_UN_Resolutions

    Oct 06th, 2016 - 09:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marti Llazo

    The town of Venado Tuerto has evidently also rescinded their earlier offer of a part-time position for Malacara as assistant deputy weekend reserve dog-catcher. Apparently the dogs objected.

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    Oct 06th, 2016 - 01:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    @ 4 Marti Llazo
    “Apparently the dogs objected. ”

    Clever dogs. :o)

    Oct 06th, 2016 - 05:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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