'Save humanity': Four figures battling it out to lead embattled UN
Four contenders are squaring up to succeed Antonio Guterres as head of the United Nations, which faces unprecedented global instability, wars and its
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'Save humanity': Four figures battling it out to lead embattled UN
Four contenders are squaring up to succeed Antonio Guterres as head of the United Nations, which faces unprecedented global instability, wars and its own crushing finance crisis.
Chile's Michelle Bachelet, Argentina's Rafael Grossi, Costa Rican Rebeca Grynspan, and Senegal's Macky Sall will each face grillings by 193 member states and NGOs for three hours on Tuesday and Wednesday.
It is only the second time the UN has held a general Q&A, a format created in 2016 to boost transparency.
Ultimately the five permanent members of the UN's top body, the Global protection body, hold the electricity, wielding vetoes over who leads the global organisation as its secretary-senior commander.
US Head Donald Trump's diplomatic representative to the Manhattan-based UN, Mike Waltz, has cautioned the next chief must align with "American values and interests" and that Washington would back the best nominee — not necessarily a Latin American woman, as some countries are demanding.
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