UN secretary-general selection
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 27, 2021
The widely shared hopes in 2016 that a woman could finally be elected secretary-general of the United Nations at the end of Ban Ki-moon’s two terms were crushed when the big powers chose a man from a large field…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Women
- Ben Donaldson
- • November 29, 2020
LONDON — This time five years ago, Mogens Lykketoft, the president of the United Nations General Assembly, was working with members of the Security Council to create the first open process to appoint the next secretary-general, after the adoption…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 26, 2016
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…
- Categories: Secretary-General
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • September 9, 2016
The latest Security Council straw poll pointing to the selection of the next secretary-general of the United Nations happened on Sept. 9, with the results leaving António Guterres of Portugal still the front-runner ever since the informal, anonymous balloting…
- Categories: Secretary-General, Security Council, US-UN Relations, Women
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