Portugal's Antonio Guterres elected UN secretary-general
Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres has been officially appointed as the next UN secretary-general.
He will become the world's top diplomat on 1 January when Ban Ki-moon's second five-year term ends.
Mr Guterres, 67, who led the UN refugee agency UNHCR for 10 years, was chosen from among 13 candidates last week.
He told the BBC that ending the civil war in Syria would be his biggest challenge.
"I believe it is the international community's first priority is to be able to end this conflict and use this momentum created by it to try to address all the other conflicts that are interlinked," he told the BBC's chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet.
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Just posting the news, I know many folks don't like the UN, myself included.
