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Tuesday, 8 June 2021 (YJC) _Antonio Guterres won support from the UN Security Council for a second five-year term.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres won support from the UN Security Council on Tuesday for a second five-year term at the world body he’s led since 2017.
Guterres, a 72-year-old former prime minister of Portugal, has struggled to forge diplomatic compromises in troubled hot spots amid deepening rifts between the U.S. and its key rivals, Russia and China. He has instead focused on uniting the world behind efforts to combat climate change and environmental collapse.
The recommendation from the 15-member council will be sent to the president of the 193-member General Assembly for an official vote, but that’s seen as largely symbolic. Estonia’s Ambassador Sven Jurgenson, the council’s rotating president for June, said last week that the General Assembly’s adoption is likely to take place soon after the council’s recommendation.
In May, Guterres made his case for a second term, saying that countries need to move beyond policies focused solely on economic growth, which he argued has fueled inequality and environmental degradation. He said the world needs to let go of illusions from the 1990s, when there was faith that “globalization would lift and resolve everything.”
He also warned about the “dangers of the new geostrategic divide and dysfunctional power relations.”
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