{"id":255187,"date":"2016-10-05T16:29:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T16:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=255187"},"modified":"2016-10-05T16:29:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T16:29:04","slug":"portugals-guterres-set-to-be-next-un-secretary-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=255187","title":{"rendered":"Portugal&#8217;s Guterres set to be next UN secretary general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Portugal&#8217;s former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres is poised to become the next UN secretary general, UN diplomats say.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Guterres, 66, was the &#8220;clear favourite&#8221;, Russia&#8217;s UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A formal vote will take place in the UN Security Council on Thursday to confirm the choice of nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Guterres, who led the UN refugee agency for 10 years, will take over from Ban Ki-moon early next year.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-member Security Council cast secret ballots for each of the 10 candidates on Wednesday and none were found to oppose Mr Guterres.<\/p>\n<p>They were asked to select from a choice of encourage, discourage or no opinion for each candidate, with the former Portuguese prime minister receiving 13 encourage votes and two no opinion votes.<\/p>\n<p>A formal vote will take place at 1000 EST (1500 BST) on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ban will stand down after ten years at the helm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal&#8217;s former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres is poised to become the next UN secretary general, UN diplomats say. Mr Guterres, 66, was the &#8220;clear favourite&#8221;, Russia&#8217;s UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin announced on Wednesday. A formal vote will take place in the UN Security Council on Thursday to confirm the choice of nominee. Mr Guterres, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":255189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[12352,12353,12354],"class_list":["post-255187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-antonio-guterres","tag-un-secretary-general","tag-un-security-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/255189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}