NEW YORK: The UN safety council on Tuesday advisable secretary common Antonio Guterres for a second five-year time period as chief of the world organisation starting January 1, 2022.
The 15-nation council held a closed assembly the place it unanimously adopted a decision recommending Guterres’ identify to the 193-member common meeting for a second time period as secretary common.
“India welcomes the adoption of @UN #SecurityCouncil decision recommending a second time period to #UnitedNations Secretary-Basic @antonioguterres,” India’s everlasting consultant to the UN ambassador TS Tirumurti tweeted.
Final month, India had conveyed its help to Guterres for his candidature as chief of the world physique for a second time period starting January 2022.
Exterior affairs minister S Jaishankar had 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 management of the UN, particularly in these difficult occasions. Conveyed our help for his candidature for a second time period,” Jaishankar mentioned in a tweet after the assembly.
Later a press launch issued by the everlasting mission of the India to the UN additionally said that Jaishankar “conveyed that India values secretary common’s management of the United Nations, particularly in these difficult occasions. He conveyed India’s help for his candidature for re-election for a second time period.”
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 12 months.
The time period of the following secretary common will start on January 1, 2022.
Former Prime Minister of Portugal, Guterres served because the United Nations excessive commissioner for refugees from a decade from June 2005 to December 2015.
Guterres, nominated by the federal government of Portugal, has been the one official candidate for the place of secretary common and his re-election was a given.
In March, Guterres had circulated his imaginative and prescient assertion and earlier in Could, laid out his case for a second time period to UN member states throughout a casual interactive dialogue convened within the common meeting corridor.
Guterres was elected after a reformed choice course of that included a public casual dialogue session within the common meeting, involving civil society representatives, aimed toward making certain transparency and inclusivity.
In his imaginative and prescient assertion ‘Restoring belief and galvanizing hope’, Guterres mentioned 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 Motion to realize the Sustainable Improvement Objectives and advocating for a extra equitable world amongst different points.
“As we emerge from the pandemic, the UN is extra related than ever. We should act as a catalyst and a platform for extra inclusive, networked and efficient types of multilateralism. Our path of journey is evident on peace and safety, local weather motion, sustainable improvement, human rights and the humanitarian crucial.
“Our energy to remodel the present state of affairs into a greater world and future for all is dependent upon everybody in every single place and may solely be completed efficiently if we’re resolute and resolved to mix our efforts in the direction of our frequent agenda for the advantage of humanity and the planet,” Guterres mentioned in his imaginative and prescient assertion.
In January this 12 months, Guterres had confirmed that he can be searching for a second five-year time period as chief of the world organisation.
In accordance with Article 97 of the UN Constitution, the appointment of the secretary common is made by the final meeting, on the advice of the Safety Council, which in impact signifies that any of the 5 everlasting members can veto the nominee. Every secretary-general has the choice of a second time period if they will garner sufficient help from member states.
India, at the moment a non-permanent member of the UN safety council for the 2021-22 time period, can be president of the UN safety council in August this 12 months and in November 2022.
The 15-nation council held a closed assembly the place it unanimously adopted a decision recommending Guterres’ identify to the 193-member common meeting for a second time period as secretary common.
“India welcomes the adoption of @UN #SecurityCouncil decision recommending a second time period to #UnitedNations Secretary-Basic @antonioguterres,” India’s everlasting consultant to the UN ambassador TS Tirumurti tweeted.
Final month, India had conveyed its help to Guterres for his candidature as chief of the world physique for a second time period starting January 2022.
Exterior affairs minister S Jaishankar had 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 management of the UN, particularly in these difficult occasions. Conveyed our help for his candidature for a second time period,” Jaishankar mentioned in a tweet after the assembly.
Later a press launch issued by the everlasting mission of the India to the UN additionally said that Jaishankar “conveyed that India values secretary common’s management of the United Nations, particularly in these difficult occasions. He conveyed India’s help for his candidature for re-election for a second time period.”
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 12 months.
The time period of the following secretary common will start on January 1, 2022.
Former Prime Minister of Portugal, Guterres served because the United Nations excessive commissioner for refugees from a decade from June 2005 to December 2015.
Guterres, nominated by the federal government of Portugal, has been the one official candidate for the place of secretary common and his re-election was a given.
In March, Guterres had circulated his imaginative and prescient assertion and earlier in Could, laid out his case for a second time period to UN member states throughout a casual interactive dialogue convened within the common meeting corridor.
Guterres was elected after a reformed choice course of that included a public casual dialogue session within the common meeting, involving civil society representatives, aimed toward making certain transparency and inclusivity.
In his imaginative and prescient assertion ‘Restoring belief and galvanizing hope’, Guterres mentioned 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 Motion to realize the Sustainable Improvement Objectives and advocating for a extra equitable world amongst different points.
“As we emerge from the pandemic, the UN is extra related than ever. We should act as a catalyst and a platform for extra inclusive, networked and efficient types of multilateralism. Our path of journey is evident on peace and safety, local weather motion, sustainable improvement, human rights and the humanitarian crucial.
“Our energy to remodel the present state of affairs into a greater world and future for all is dependent upon everybody in every single place and may solely be completed efficiently if we’re resolute and resolved to mix our efforts in the direction of our frequent agenda for the advantage of humanity and the planet,” Guterres mentioned in his imaginative and prescient assertion.
In January this 12 months, Guterres had confirmed that he can be searching for a second five-year time period as chief of the world organisation.
In accordance with Article 97 of the UN Constitution, the appointment of the secretary common is made by the final meeting, on the advice of the Safety Council, which in impact signifies that any of the 5 everlasting members can veto the nominee. Every secretary-general has the choice of a second time period if they will garner sufficient help from member states.
India, at the moment a non-permanent member of the UN safety council for the 2021-22 time period, can be president of the UN safety council in August this 12 months and in November 2022.