2021.01.11. 20:51
He said he would have backed away if Trump had won, though he might not have been elected.
A spokesman told a news conference that Guterres “is ready for a second term as secretary-general of the world body if the member states so desire. His current term ends on December 31, 2021.”
At lunch on Monday, the 75-year-old politician informed the ambassadors of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (the United States, France, China, Britain and Russia) of his intention, which, in the words of the spokesperson, “did not particularly object at this point.” .
The UN General Assembly and Security Council resolution awaits later this year to take a position on whether Guterres can remain at the helm of the world organization.
It is a tradition in the United Nations that the current Secretary-General can serve a maximum of two terms of five years, and in recent decades nearly everyone has used this option (except for Boutros-Ghali in Egypt, whom Washington objected to his re-election in 1996). ).
Referring to diplomats at the United Nations, Agence France-Presse reported that Guterres is announcing her expected re-nomination, such as:
He did not want to remain at the helm of the United Nations any longer next year if Donald Trump won the election there in the United States.
This, for example, is not surprising given the fact that Guterres was previously the leader of the Portuguese Marxist Party and then the Socialist International. In a speech last year, he unequivocally supported the creation of a world government.
