Posted on 10/06/2016 4:34:44 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
JTA - The choice for next secretary-general of the United Nations said he wants to be an “honest broker” and a “bridge builder.”
Antonio Guterres, a former prime minister of Portugal, was approved unanimously by the Security Council on Thursday after several straw polls in recent days. The General Assembly, made up of 193 nations, is expected to approve the choice in its vote next week.
Until December, Guterres served 10 years as the UN high commissioner for refugees. He said the experience prepared him for his new post.
Guterres, 67, told The Associated Press before the closed door Security Council vote that he wants to be “an honest broker, a bridge builder and someone who tries to create conditions for consensus.”
He said a new “diplomacy for peace” using discreet diplomatic contacts and shuttling among key players in conflicts is needed.
“I think we are living in a world where we see a multiplication of new conflicts, and you see an enormous difficulty in solving the conflicts,” Guterres told AP. “There is a clear lack of capacity in the international community to prevent and to solve conflicts.”
Israel’s UN envoy welcomed the choice of Guterres, who would succeed Ban Ki-moon of South Korea.
“The State of Israel hopes, and expects, that the UN under his leadership will act in the spirit of its founding principles as a fair body able to differentiate between good and evil and will end its obsession with Israel,” Danny Danon said in a statement. “I hope that this change in leadership will bring an end to the organization’s hostility towards the Jewish state.”
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A Super Socialist to get the Global Government going
But isn’t this the gig that Bammy wanted?? Maybe his influence in the world isn’t what he says it is.
They finally got someone with a name we can’t make fun of.
BHO wants this job...badly...
What did he do? Didn’t he create enough crises? Didn’t he exacerbate enough longstanding hatreds? Is it something he said?
Don’t worry the UN has a Special Place for Obama
The UN is still the UN, where criminal countries get power to run the show.
Guterres served 10 years as the UN high commissioner for refugees.
OK...maybe not.
So he heads up an agency that sees the world wide refugee situation as bad as it has been in many decades. This so-called leadership is what will be rewarded by the top post. typical government
He also served for a time as President of the Socialist International
I think so too. If this guy actually gets in, it won’t surprise me if he doesn’t live too long.
/adjusts tinfoil hat
lol
was approved unanimously by the Security Council
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I think I’m right in saying that the US is not represented on this council...
and maybe none of the nations of the West are..
its all 3rd World countries...
Hey if ya cant even get the Olympics, nobody loves ya, Baby...
The U.S., England and France are all permanent members of the Security Council (along with Russia and China-- the UN was set up by the 5 victors of World War II). The other members of the Council rotate. Only the permanent members have veto power.
Dayam! They snubbed the Nobel Peace Prize winner Barry Soetoro. I guess he’s going to have to take that Supreme Court job Clintoon has waiting for him.
Antonio Guterres is far left, but I’m curious how he feels about Jews and about Americans. We all know the chances that he supports Israel and supports Jews. We all know the chances that he wants to see America prosper?
How’ll she give him it from Club Fed?
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