For the first time, the process of selecting the next head of the United Nations is to be done publicly.The move marks a distinct change in the UN's 70-year history, which has previously always chosen its next candidate behind closed doors.
The council's five permanent members - the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia and China - have the power to veto this choice.
The current Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, is due to step down at the end of 2016.
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