We bring to you Antonio Guterres net worth. Before becoming the General Secretary of the world governing body, He was also UN High Commissioner for Refugees–all experience he’ll need to draw on in order to help defuse Europe’s ongoing migrant crisis.
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António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres is a Portuguese politician and diplomat serving as the ninth secretary-general of the United Nations. A member of the Portuguese Socialist Party, he served as prime minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002.
Guterres served as secretary-general of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He was elected prime minister of Portugal in 1995 and resigned in 2002 after the Socialist Party was defeated in the 2001 Portuguese local elections.
After six years governing without an absolute majority and with a bad economy, the Socialist Party did worse than expected because of losses in Lisbon and Porto, where polls showed it with a solid lead. Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues assumed the Socialist Party leadership, but the general election was lost to the Social Democratic Party, led by José Manuel Barroso.
Guterres served as president of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. He was the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 2005 to 2015.
In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him the best prime minister of the previous 30 years.
Un General Secretary
Guterres began his five year term as the Secretary-General of the United Nations in January 2017.
As head of the 193 member United Nations, the Secretary-General helps promote peace, fight hunger and protect millions of refugees worldwide.
Antonio Guterres net worth
Guterres will be the ninth occupant of the post, serving as chief administrative officer of the organization for at least one (and usually two) terms.
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Antonio Guterres Net Worth
Antonio Guterres net worth is estimated at several millions of dollars. As a Un General Secretary, Guterres takes about $227,253 as salary
Highlights of UN Work
On 1 January 2017, on his first day at the helm of the United Nations as secretary-general, Guterres pledged to make 2017 a year for peace. “Let us resolve to put peace first,” he said.
On 12 April 2017, Guterres appointed an 8-member Independent Panel to assess and enhance the effectiveness of UN-Habitat after Adoption of the New Urban Agenda. The panel’s recommendation to establish an independent coordinating mechanism, ‘UN-Urban’ met with criticism from urban experts and the African Urban Institute.
On 20 June 2017, “Secretary-General António Guterres warned the Trump administration … that if the United States disengages from many issues confronting the international community it will be replaced”. Guterres, Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, 2018
In response to the death of Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, who died of organ failure while in government custody, Guterres said he was deeply saddened.
After the violence during the 2017 Catalan independence referendum, Guterres trusted Spanish institutions to find a solution.
He gave the same message when Catalonia declared independence on 27 October 2017 but said the solution should be made under the constitutional framework.
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Guterres criticized the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen and the naval, land and air blockade of Yemen. The blockade has further aggravated Yemen’s severe humanitarian crisis. Guterres said that the intervention in Yemen “is a stupid war. I think this war is against the interests of Saudi Arabia and the Emirates… [and] of the people of Yemen.”
Guterres opposed President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
In March 2018, Guterres said the population of Syria’s Eastern Ghouta was living in “hell on earth”. In one district, 93% of buildings had been damaged or destroyed by December, according to UN satellite imagery analysis. A recent wave of bombings has caused further destruction.
Guterres called the 2018 North Korea–United States summit a “crucial milestone” for nuclear disarmament. He urged both sides to “seize this momentous opportunity” and offered UN assistance to achieve the goal of dismantling North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.
In August 2018, Guterres called for an independent investigation into a Saudi Arabian-led coalition air strike in Yemen that killed 51 civilians, including 40 children. Guterres with Nikol Pashinyan, Rumen Radev, Xi Jinping, Sophie Shevardnadze, Vladimir Putin and Peter Pellegrini at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, June 2019
Guterres condemned the persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar and called for a stronger response to the crisis.
In September 2018, during his address to the 73rd United Nations General Assembly, Guterres became the first secretary to say that advancing technology will disrupt labor markets like never before and to advocate stronger safety nets like Universal Basic Income.
In 2019, human rights groups criticized Guterres for being “silent” as China sent ethnic Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities to the Xinjiang re-education camps. Human Rights Watch chief Kenneth Roth said that Guterres “has been notably silent on one of the most important, … the most brazen human rights abuses, … because he is worried about upsetting the Chinese.”
In June 2019, Guterres stated that the “U.N. has the obligation to assume global leadership” in tackling climate change in the context of a visit to the pacific island of Tuvalu.
He had previously supported other multilateral environmental initiatives, such as the Global Pact for the Environment that was put forward by France in September 2017.
In September 2019, Guterres condemned Israeli plans to annex the eastern portion of the occupied West Bank known as the Jordan Valley.
Guterres expressed his “deep concern” at the spiralling violence in Syria a day after Turkey launched an offensive in Kurdish-controlled areas. He said any solution to the conflict needed to respect the sovereignty of the territory and the unity of Syria.
Guterres praised the Israel–United Arab Emirates peace agreement, stating that he welcomes “any initiative that can promote peace and security in the Middle East region.” Guterres expressed the hope that the agreement between Israel and Sudan to normalize relations will create opportunities for peace and prosperity.
On 10 August 2020, responding to an explosion in Beirut, Guterres expressed his support for all people in need in Lebanon, especially women and girls who are most vulnerable in times of crisis.
On 22 September, he appealed for global solidarity to overcome COVID-19, and again called for a global ceasefire by the end of 2020.
On 6 October 2020, Guterres expressed deep concern over the escalation of hostilities in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh and called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to immediately halt fighting and progress towards a peaceful resolution.
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