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Ant?nio Guterres. File photo, EPA/BGNES
"Although Ant?nio Guterres is constantly top he fails the regional test of being from Portugal and the gender hope that governments would choose a woman... He clearly is a very good candidate but from the wrong region and sex."
Futurist Felix Dodds commenting on the race that will determine the next UN Secretary General.
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The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) leader Korneliya Ninova has said she will not seek support from any other political organization for the upcoming presidential vote.
President (2002-2012) Georgi Parvanov has urged Prime Minister Boyko Borisov to step down over the Bulgarian candidates' performance at the last vote for UN Secretary General.
Results of the vote for UN Secretary General show neither of the two Bulgarian candidates stood any chance to take over the office, an expert has said, a day after Portuguese ex-Prime Minister Ant?nio Guterres was announced as an unanimous choice by the U
A first vote on the UN Secretary General candidates where colour-coded ballots will be used to show preferences for contenders will be held by the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov has said his country does not reject any UN Secretary General candidate outright and will bar none from running in the race.
"It is a time to pull people together ...
“We cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form.
Let's not excuse violence, or rationalize it, or participate in it.
"Europe hasn't done its homework...
"North Korea has conducted a major Nuclear Test.
"There are a lot of killers.
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