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takyon writes:

Antonio Guterres will become the next United Nations Secretary-General after winning a straw poll unanimously:

Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres is set to become the next United Nations secretary-general, after the 15 Security Council members agreed to put his name forward to a formal vote. Guterres, who was head of the UN's refugee agency for 10 years until 2015, emerged as the Security Council's runaway favorite after the latest in a series of straw polls on Wednesday. Vitaly Churkin, the Russian ambassador to the UN and current Security Council president, told reporters that Guterres would face a vote in the Security Council on Thursday. "Today, after our sixth straw poll we have a clear favorite, and his name is Antonio Guterres," he said.

The BBC has some background information about Guterres.

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1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
2. "become the next United Nations Secretary-General" - http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/05/world/un-secretary-general-antonio-guterres/index.html
3. "unanimously" - http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-n-security-council-chooses-antonio-guterres-as-secretary-general-1475692334
4. "background information" - http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37565570
5. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=16240

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