Secretary-General of the United Nations

Javier Perez de Cuellar, the two-term United Nations secretary-general who brokered a historic cease-fire between Iran and Iraq in 1988 and who in later life came out of retirement to help re-establish democracy in his Peruvian homeland, has died. He was 100.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced on Sept. 23 the formation of a body to write a new constitution for Syria following more than eight years of war devastated the country and its population.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council on April 16 that he is pressing on with a bid to re-start negotiations on reuniting Cyprus, nearly two years after talks collapsed.

Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres was sworn in on Dec. 12 as the ninth United Nations Secretary-General, pledging to personally help broker peace in various conflicts and reform the 71-year old world body to become more effective. 

As of October 1, Russia will take over the UN Security Council Presidency.

This is the month when the process of selection of a new Secretary General of the UN may end.

The new nominee of the Bulgarian government for UN Secretary General has been registered officially as the 13th candidate to succeed Ban Ki-moon in the international organisation.

Kristalina Georgieva's name and her brief concept of how she imagines the tasks of the organisation have been published on the official webpage of the UN.

Asked about a possible U.S. veto on his UNSG bid, Vuk Jeremic said it was a thankless task to comment on how UN Security Council members might vote.

Serbia's candidate for the position of UN secretary-general has placed second in the fifth round of the informal voting organized at the UN Security Council.

This is according to unofficial information on Monday evening European time.

According to a report in the British daily Guardian, Serbia's candidate for the position of UN secretary-general will "almost certainly" be vetoed.

Vesna Pusic thinks it is possible that none of the candidates now in the race to become the new UN secretary-general will eventually be elected to the position.

Pusic is a former Croatian foreign minister and a former candidate in the race for the top UN job, who dropped out earlier in the year.