Antonio Guterres re-elected as UN Secretary General for 2nd five-year time period

UN General Assembly on Friday appointed Antonio Guterres because the UN Secretary General for a second time period starting January 1, 2022, days after the highly effective Security Council unanimously really helpful his title to the 193-member physique for re-election.
President of the seventy fifth session of the UN General Assembly Volkan Bozkir introduced that Guterres “has been appointed by acclamation as the Secretary General of the United Nations for the second term of office beginning on January 1, 2022 and ending on December 31, 2026”.
Bozkir then administered the oath of workplace to 72-year-old Guterres on the podium of the UN General Assembly Hall.
On June 8, the 15-nation Council had held a closed assembly the place it adopted by acclamation the decision that really helpful Guterres’ title to the 193-member General Assembly for a second five-year time period as Secretary General from January 1, 2022-December 31, 2026.

Estonia’s Ambassador to the UN Sven Jurgenson, President of the Council for the month of June, had instructed reporters after the assembly: “We have all seen truly the Secretary General in motion.
“I think he has been an excellent Secretary General. He’s a bridge builder, his views on the conflict zones in the world and he’s able to speak to everybody. And I think this is something that is expected from the Secretary General and he has proven worthy of the post already with the five years that he has been in office,” Jurgenson stated.
India had expressed its help for re-election of Guterres as UN Chief and welcomed the adoption of the decision recommending his title.
India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador T S Tirumurti tweeted “India welcomes the adoption of @UN #SecurityCouncil resolution recommending a second term to #UnitedNations Secretary-General @antonioguterres.”

Last month, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Guterres on the United Nations headquarters and expressed New Delhi’s help to him for his second time period because the world’s prime diplomat.
“India values UNSG’s leadership of the UN, especially in these challenging times. Conveyed our support for his candidature for a second term,” Jaishankar had stated in a tweet after the assembly.
Later a press launch issued by the Permanent Mission of India to the UN additionally acknowledged that Jaishankar “conveyed that India values Secretary General’s leadership of the United Nations, especially in these challenging times. He conveyed India’s support for his candidature for re-election for a second term”.Under the UN Charter, the Secretary-General is appointed by the General Assembly upon the advice of the Security Council. Each Secretary-General has the choice of a second time period if they’ll garner sufficient help from Member States.
Guterres, the ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations, took oath of workplace on January 1, 2017 and his first time period ends on December 31 this yr. Former Prime Minister of Portugal, Guterres served because the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for a decade from June 2005 to December 2015.
Guterres, nominated by the Government of Portugal, has been the one official candidate for the place of Secretary General and his re-election was a given. There has been no lady Secretary General within the UN’s 75-year historical past and Guterres’ re-election will imply that any chance of getting a feminine lead the world organisation can come solely after 2026.
In March, Guterres had circulated his imaginative and prescient assertion and earlier in May, laid out his case for a second time period to UN Member States throughout an off-the-cuff interactive dialogue convened within the General Assembly Hall.
Guterres was elected after a reformed choice course of that included a public casual dialogue session within the General Assembly, involving civil society representatives, geared toward guaranteeing transparency and inclusivity.

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In his imaginative and prescient assertion ‘Restoring trust and inspiring hope’, Guterres stated that the imperatives for the following 5 years embrace mounting an enormous and enduring response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its penalties within the short-term, leaving no stone unturned within the seek for peace and safety, making peace with nature and local weather motion, turbocharging the Decade of Action to realize the Sustainable Development Goals and advocating for a extra equitable world, guaranteeing the centrality of human rights, taking gender equality to the following degree, specializing in folks, rising to the problem of digital transformation, advancing multilateralism and the widespread agenda, embarking on a ‘United Nations 2.0’ and rekindling shared dedication to enduring values.
“As we emerge from the pandemic, the UN is more relevant than ever. We must act as a catalyst and a platform for more inclusive, networked and effective forms of multilateralism. Our direction of travel is clear on peace and security, climate action, sustainable development, human rights and the humanitarian imperative. Our power to transform the current situation into a better world and future for all depends on everyone everywhere and can only be done successfully if we are resolute and resolved to combine our efforts towards our common agenda for the benefit of humanity and the planet,” Guterres stated in his imaginative and prescient assertion. PTI YAS AKJ