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Explaining the UN Secretary-General’s Cautious Crisis Diplomacy
Facing intractable conflicts and great-power frictions, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has found it hard to deliver on his promised “surge in...
As he applies for a second term, it is worth contemplating why and how he can still leave his mark.
- Richard Gowan
- ICG
UN Secretary-General António Guterres will make his case for a second five-year term to the UN General Assembly on 7 May.
It will largely be a formality.
Guterres faces no serious rival for the post, and he is on good terms with all the UN Security Council’s permanent members, although Russia says it is…