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AUnited Nations youth climate adviser has a history of social media posts that call for the destruction of capitalism, claim "terrorism" is used as a Western smear to justify its imperialism and attack White people for purportedly fueling humanity's extinction vis-à-vis the climate crisis. The United Nations' Secretary-General António Guterres personally selected Pakistani-American Ayisha Siddiqa as one of his advisers to help "accelerat[e] the implementation of his climate action agenda," a 2023 UN announcement stated. Siddiqa was a Time Woman of the Year in 2023 who has co-founded two youth climate activist organizations. "The Secretary-General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate...

Russia hit Kiev with missile strikes during the visit of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Ukraine's officials said on Thursday, adding that the strikes hit residential areas, leading to a fire and causing three casualties.“Missile strikes in the downtown of Kiev during the official visit of @antonioguterres. The day before he was sitting at a long table in the Kremlin, and today explosions are above his head. Postcard from Moscow? Recall why Russia still takes a seat on the UN Security Council?” the Presidency’s office tweeted.Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said: “Russia… [struck] Kiev with cruise missiles right when UN Secretary...

The Secretary General has unfortunately fallen prey to the hysteria surrounding the executive order that President Trump signed last weekend relating to refugees and visitors to the United States United Nations Secretary General António Guterres told reporters at UN headquarters Wednesday that President Trump’s measures to restrict the entry of visitors to the United States from seven listed Muslim majority countries “should be removed sooner rather than later.” He added that those measures “violate our basic principles.”

Security council agrees, in surprisingly quick decision, that former Portuguese PM will succeed Ban Ki-moon at start of 2017António Guterres, the former Portuguese prime minister, will be the next UN secretary general, after the security council agreed he should replace Ban Ki-moon at the beginning of next year. In a rare show of unity, all 15 ambassadors from the security council emerged from the sixth in a series of straw polls to announce that they had agreed on Guterres, who was UN high commissioner for refugees for a decade, and that they would confirm the choice in a formal vote...

Obama always seems to crave more ego gratification. There is no limit to his thirst for personal power and glory. The slogan "The Audacity of Hope" is taken straight from Napoleon's creed, "L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace!" Always act audaciously on the battlefield, because your opponents will never predict your dangerous moves. Your enemies will be shocked and overwhelmed by the risks you take. That's how Napoleon managed to kill tens of millions of Europeans in his attempt to conquer the world after 1800. George Patton used the audacity strategy to beat Nazi armored divisions in World War II. Hitler used...

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton says British Prime Minister Tony Blair can look forward to both financial and spiritual rewards when he leaves office. In an interview with the BBC, Clinton said he had talked to Blair about his future and tried to give him the benefit of his own experience. Blair has said he will not stand in the next British election. Asked about the possibility of Blair becoming secretary-general of the United Nations, Clinton said Blair would be a good choice. "What I would say to him and what I have said to him -- I saw him...

Clinton backs Blair as future UN chief 10 minutes ago Former US president Bill Clinton backed British Prime Minister Tony Blair as a future secretary general of the United Nations. Clinton told BBC television Blair would make a "good" head for the international organisation when he leaves office, as he has indicated he will before the next general election, expected by 2010 at the latest. The pair -- who became friends during Clinton's time at the White House between 1993 and 2001 -- had discussed Blair's future and Clinton had told him there was "a lot of good you can...

SINCE 1945, the world’s top diplomatic job has been held by three Europeans, two Africans, one Latin American, but no women. Kofi Annan is due to step down as UN Secretary-General at the end of the year, or even earlier, and women’s groups have begun lobbying for a woman to succeed him. Their campaign has taken on new urgency with the recent announcement that Mr Annan’s deputy, Louise Fréchette, appointed in 1998 partly because she was a woman, will leave in April to return to her native Canada. “Starting with the Charter of the UN, it has always been among...

Excerpts - WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- By this time next year Kofi Annan will be packing his bags ready to hand over the United Nations to a new Secretary General, but choosing the seventh U.N. head since the world body's inception in 1945 may not follow the usual formula, and could produce a surprise. Although Annan does not leave office until Jan 2007, behind the scenes the campaign for the succession is getting into gear, and diplomats in the glass tower on the East River expect the appointment to be sewn up well ahead of time, probably by next...

Kofi Annan's term as Secretary General of UN is coming to an end, and is ending in tatters. He oversaw the biggest corruption scandal in the world - bribery and theft on a scale that makes Enron look positively petty. The question 'what did Kofi know, and when did he know it?' has never been fully answered, but we do know that Saddam stole billions of dollars - $1.8 billion which can be traced and a great deal more which can't. We know that some of this money flowed into Taliban controlled Afghanistan, which puts a new perspective on the...

Amman, 25 July (AKI) - Jordan's crown prince, Hasan bin Talal, the uncle of the country's monarch, King Abdullah, is considering putting his name forward as a candidate to succeed Kofi Annan as UN secretary-general, according to Jordanian sources. The candidature of the Bin Talal, 58, is based on his "efforts to combat terrorism and extremism in the Arab world," the sources said. However, the prince's chances of succeeding Annan, whose mandate ends in December 2006, are considered slim in Jordan, given that the current international political climate would make it difficult for an Arab to occupy the UN's top...

Bill Clinton's desire to succeed Kofi Annan as secretary-general of the United Nations when the latter steps down next year has now graduated from the rumor stage to that of a fact as well-established as such a thing can reasonably be at this point in the game. In a way it's so obvious that one can reproach oneself for not having foreseen it sooner. At 58 and in reasonably good health (despite his recent bypass surgery), the former president can expect a decade, or even two, of potentially productive years ahead of him. And, barred by the Constitution from running...

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, who retires next year, said Thursday the next chief of the world body should come from Asia. The last UN Secretary General from Asia was U Thant who hailed from Myanmar -- then known as Burma -- and served as secretary general from 1961 to 1971. "The secretary-general is elected on a rotational basis and next time it is Asia's turn," said Annan, who is from Ghana and whose stint as secretary general concludes at the end of 2006. "I think a candidate has emerged from Thailand," Annan added. Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Surakiart Sathirathai...

New York (dpa) - U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday appointed American diplomat Erskine Bowles to assist former U.S. President Bill Clinton in collecting aid for the victims of the December 26 Indian Ocean tsunami. Clinton has accepted Annan's offer to become the U.N. special envoy for tsunami recovery in addition to partnering with fellow former U.S. president George Bush to raise private funds in the United States for tsunami victims. Bowles, who served during Clinton's term in office as his chief of staff, will now serve as Clinton's deputy special envoy. His first chore will be to attend...

Bill Clinton for U.N. Secretary-General? The Annan-Clinton intrigue is all the more interesting because of the speculation that a President Kerry would appoint Bill Clinton as secretary-general of the U.N. This story is a repeat of reports during the 2000 election that Clinton had a deal with Al Gore that he would appoint Clinton to the coveted global job if Gore won the presidency. But with Clinton aides and associates holding the purse strings at the DNC and with many of the 527 groups that Kerry will need to finance his last laps until November, Clinton may ask for payback....