Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni on Wednesday hailed the United Nations Security Council's nomination of former UN refugee agency chief Antonio Guterres to be the next UN secretary-general. "A great choice! Antonio Guterres will make the United Nations stronger," Gentiloni tweeted after Guterres tweeted he is "happy and honored". The UN General Assembly will have to approve his nomination to replace current UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of South Korea, whose second five-year term expires at the end of the year. Guterres, a former prime minister of Portugal and former leader of the Socialist International, served as UN High Commissioner for Refugees from 2005 to 2015.
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