Former prime minister of Portugal Antonio Gutteres has been appointed Secretary General of the United Nations to succeed Ban Ki Moon. There was a campaign to elect a woman for the first time to the post that included former NZ prime minister Helen Clark.
E foliga mai o le avea Antonio Guterres ma failautusi aoao o malo aufaatasi e sui tulaga ia Tupua Ban Ki Moon.
Ina ua maea palota faalilolilo muamua, ua mamao i luma le lagolagoina o Guterres e ui na malosi le talitonuga o le a tula'i mai se sui tamaitai i le tofi failautusi aoao.
I le maea ai o le lona 6 o palota, na faaalia e Vitaly Churkin le sui o Rusia i malo aufaatasi le mamao i luma o le lagolagoina o Antonio Guterres..
CHURKIN
"Well, ladies and gentlemen, you are witnessing I think an historic scene. I don't know if it has ever been done this way in the history of the United Nations before. As you know, we have conducted our sixth straw poll and this has been a very important process of selecting the next secretary general and I think we've treated it with great responsibility. After our sixth straw poll, we have a clear favourite and his name is Antonio Guterres."
I lana saunoaga e tulei ai lona avea ma sui tauva i le tofi na ta'ua e Guterres lona talitonuga i le taua o aia tatau a tagata uma i le lalolagi.....
GUTERRES
"We badly need at this moment two things: leadership and values. The values that our societies that are all becoming multi-ethnic, multi-religious, and multicultural need in order to foster inclusion, cohesion, to make people feel they belong, to value diversity and to confront and defeat political populism, xenophobia, racism and violent extremism. And I believe those values are the values I've served all my life."
E faalua ona tauavea e Antonio Guterres le tofi Komesina o malo aufaatasi mo le puipuiga o tagata sulufa'i, le U-N High Commissioner for Refugees.
I lona tulaga lea, na ia faitioina ai le malo tele i Ausetalia nei i ana fuafuaga e toe faamalosi ona toso 'ese va'a ma tagata sulufa'i i fafo atu o ogasami puipuia o Ausetalia.
I le 2012, na ia ta'ua i le A-B-C o le faaiuga e solitulafono i lalo o le U-N Refugee Convention.
