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Urgent: UN Security Council to hold straw poll on Sept. 9

Xinhua, September 2, 2016 Adjust font size:

The UN Security Council will have a new round of straw poll next Friday on the 10 current candidates vying to be next UN secretary-general to succeed Ban Ki-moon on Jan. 1, the president of the council, Ambassador Gerard Jacobus van Bohemen of New Zealand, announced here Thursday. Endit