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Urgent: Former Portuguese PM selected to be next UN chief

Xinhua, October 5, 2016 Adjust font size:

Former Portuguese prime minister and the former head of the UN refugee agency, Antonio Guterres, was unanimously selected Wednesday by the UN Security Council as the next UN secretary-general, succeeding UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Jan. 1, 2017, Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, who is the council president for October, announced here. Endit