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On January 1st, 2017 Portuguese diplomat Antonio Guterres became the ninth Secretary General of the United Nations. Guterres is a career
who was Portugal’s Prime Minister between 1995 and 2002. In the past decade Guterres
as the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees. The Portuguese
Ban Ki-moon, who led the United Nations for 10 years.
Born in Lisbon on April 30, 1949 Antonio Guterres went to an engineering school from where he
in 1971. He started his political
in 1974 when he became a member of Portugal’s Socialist Party. When Portugal was freed from dictatorship in 1976 Guterres was
a member of parliament. At the beginning of the 1990s he was named head of the Socialist Party and became Prime Minister shortly afterwards.
During his
as the High Commissioner Guterres witnessed a huge surge in the number of refugees and
people. Today, over 60 million people are
to be without a home, the highest number since World War II.
Many UN diplomats have welcomed the new Secretary General and
him for his negotiating skills. In his first official interview, Guterres, who,
his mother tongue, speaks English, French and Spanish, stated that global terrorism and the worldwide refugee crisis were among his main
. He also announced that he was planning to make some major changes in the world organisation, including putting more women in higher
.
The Secretary General is the highest official of the United Nations. As a type of world moderator, he must try to find solutions for conflicts around the world,
from global terrorism to climate change and population growth .