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António Guterres to be the next UN Secretary-General: Good choice, bad process

  • Written by Adil Najam, Dean, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University

The next secretary-general of the United Nations, most everyone agreed, was supposed to be a woman. To be exact, a woman from Eastern Europe.

Now it is clear that it is going to be António Guterres, former prime minister of Portugal. Guterres is not from Eastern Europe. And he’s certainly not a woman.

Guterres is generally considered a...

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