Portugal to nominate Antonio Guterres as UN chief | Inquirer News

Portugal to nominate Antonio Guterres as UN chief

/ 12:43 PM January 23, 2016

LISBON, Portugal — Portugal’s government says it will nominate former prime minister Antonio Guterres to become the next secretary-general of the United Nations.

Guterres was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees until the end of last year, a post he held for 10 years.

He was elected Portugal’s center-left prime minister in 1995 and resigned in 2002 after his Socialist Party lost heavily in municipal elections. He was also president of the Socialist International, a global association of political parties, from 1999 to 2005.

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The Portuguese Foreign Ministry said in a statement Friday that Guterres’ long political experience and the “exemplary” way he performed international duties gave him merit as a candidate.

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