The UN Security Council announced today that it has unanimously agreed that Portugal's former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres, should be the next UN Secretary General. Guterres led the UN Refugee Agency for 10 years until last December and will now take on the Secretary-General position from Ban-Ki Moon.
The announcement was made by Russia's UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin after Guterres received 13 "encourage" votes, and two "no opinion" votes in the sixth informal poll conducted of the 15 UN Security Council member states. Guterres was the favourite in the initial 5 informal polls as well.
The Security Council will meet Thursday to formally vote to approve Guterres and recommend his candidacy to the UN General Assembly which must give final approval.