By choosing a former head of government as the UN’s ninth Secretary-General, the UN Security Council has expressed its wish for a more decisive executive. António Guterres lacks neither skills nor determination, but he has a tough task ahead.After four months and six rounds of votes, the UN Security Council has chosen its successor to Ban Ki-moon and the organisation’s new Secretary-General: former Portuguese Prime Minister António Guterres. Despite indications from the US and the UK that they would have preferred a woman in the role and suggestions from Russia that it favoured an Eastern European, the choice was a …read more
Source: Royal United Services Institute