{"id":75428,"date":"2016-10-05T12:16:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T16:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/71\/?p=75428"},"modified":"2016-10-05T12:16:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T16:16:51","slug":"statement-on-the-sixth-informal-and-first-coulour-coded-security-council-straw-poll-on-the-next-secretary-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/71\/2016\/10\/05\/statement-on-the-sixth-informal-and-first-coulour-coded-security-council-straw-poll-on-the-next-secretary-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement on the sixth informal and first coulour-coded Security Council straw poll on the next Secretary-General"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\">Statement of the President of the UN General Assembly on the sixth\u00a0informal and first colour-coded straw poll of the Security Council for the position of Secretary-General<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">UNITED NATIONS, New York, 5 October 2016 &#8212; On behalf of the Security Council, the Permanent Representative of Russia, H.E. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, has just informed H.E. Peter Thomson, the President of the UN General Assembly,\u00a0that the sixth informal and first colour-coded straw poll of the Security Council for the position of Secretary-General took place earlier today and that Ant\u00f3nio Guterres has emerged as the unanimous choice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ambassador Churkin told President Thomson that the Security Council will meet tomorrow (6 October) to take a formal vote which is expected to pass by acclamation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The President\u00a0thanked him for the information and said he was\u00a0ready to further progress the process of appointing the next Secretary-General in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement of the President of the UN General Assembly on the sixth\u00a0informal and first colour-coded straw poll of the Security Council for the position of Secretary-General UNITED NATIONS, New York, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":74184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[3180,273,2203,2207,2556,249,3676,1645,3592],"class_list":["post-75428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-statements","tag-latest-news","tag-next-secretary-general","tag-next-sg","tag-next-sg-appointment-and-selection","tag-next-sg-candidates","tag-security-council","tag-security-council-straw-poll","tag-selection-of-next-sg","tag-straw-poll"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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