By Farhana Haque Rahman, Director General, Inter Press ServiceROME, Oct 13 2016 (IPS)The new UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who takes office on January 1, arrives with strong credentials — both as a former Prime Minister of Portugal and an ex-UN High Commissioner for Refugees.Farhana Haque RahmanAs a senior UN official, he spearheaded an ambitious but politically intricate action plan to battle one of the world’s major humanitarian crises that threatened to unravel European unity as millions of refugees from the Middle East, Africa and Asia landed on the shores of Europe last year.Guterres was elected mostly on merit – with …read more
Source: Inter Press Service
