The new secretary- general of the United Nations is set to be appointed by the General Assembly on October 13, General Assembly president Peter Thomson said in his statement on Tuesday. Last week, the UN Security Council recommended to the General Assembly that Portugal’s former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres be ...
Russia has vetoed a French resolution on Syria at the UN Security Council. The document was submitted by Paris a week ago and is countered by a Russian draft resolution still to be voted on. In his statement, the Russian envoy to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, said that all of ...
