The 15 members of the United Nations Security Council unanimously agreed Wednesday that former Portuguese Prime Minister António Guterres will be the U.N.'s next secretary-general. The council will hold a formal vote Thursday morning to confirm Guterres, who Russian U.N. ambassador Vitaly Churkin said was a "clear favorite" among council members.
Guterres served as the U.N.'s high commissioner for refugees for a decade, where he consistently advocated for refugees throughout his tenure; he left that post in December 2015. He has already "vowed to carry on being a spokesman for the downtrodden if he became U.N. secretary-general," The Guardian reported. "You can't imagine what it is to see levels of suffering that are unimaginable," Guterres said last summer.
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