Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, whispering to Sameh Shoukry, Egypt’s foreign minister, at a UN Security Council meeting on Sept. 21, 2016, on Syria. The next UN secretary-general will inherit the gruesome war in that country. AMANDA VOISARD/UN PHOTO
António Guterres, a former prime minister of Portugal who most recently was the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, once more dominated the latest straw poll held by the UN Security Council on selecting the next secretary-general. The five-year term starts Jan. 1, 2017, when Ban Ki-moon, a Korean, leaves office.
The fifth poll, an informal ballot in which the council’s 15 elected …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
