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ANTONIO GUTERRES TO BE NEW UN SECRETARY GENERAL
UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK, USA | 5-6 OCTOBER 2016

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The U.N. Security Council unanimously agreed Wednesday that Portugal's former prime minister Antonio Guterres should be the next secretary-general of the United Nations.

Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin made the announcement to reporters surrounded by the 14 other council ambassadors after they held a sixth informal poll of the10 candidates behind closed doors.

Churkin announced that the council would hold a formal vote on Thursday morning to recommend Guterres to the 193-member General Assembly which must approve a successor to Ban Ki-moon whose second five-year term ends on Dec. 31.

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