Although seven of the 13 candidates for UN Secretary-General were women, Security Council members recommended the General Assembly elect Antonio Guterres, Portugal's former prime minister and a devout Catholic, for the position (See the earlier blog post, "Front-Runners for UN Secretary-General.").
Guterres served as the UN's High Commissioner of Refugees from June, 2005 to December, 2015. In his campaign-like speech to the General Assembly, he said the UN is "the best place to address the root cause of human suffering." Should he assume the five-year term of Secretary-General on January 1, 2017, he will take on the difficult task of uniting members, including Russia, to end human suffering in Syria.
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