U.N. Chief Guterres appointed for second term

The 193-member United Nations General Assembly on Friday (June 18) appointed Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for a second five-year term, beginning on January 1, 2022.

Ambassadors in the assembly chamber burst into applause as Assembly President Volkan Bozkir announced Guterres’ re-election by acclamation, reports reuters.

Just before the announcement, Estonia’s UN Ambassador Sven Jurgenson, the current Security Council president, read a resolution adopted by the 15-member council recommending Guterres for a second term.

Guterres, 72, was elected Secretary-General of the United Nations in 2017 after Ban Ki-moon. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002.

Agencies