The next UN secretary-general: Who would want ‘the most impossible job on earth’?

The next UN secretary-general: Who would want ‘the most impossible job on earth’? Submitted by Sondos Asem on Mon, 07/20/2026 - 16:22 Eight candidates are battling to replace Antonio Guterres as the organisation comes under pressure from the US and Israel among others UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres attends a meeting with Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the G7 leaders' summit in Hiroshima in May 2023 (AFP) On In April 1953, Norwegian UN secretary-general Trygve Lie was at New York’s Idlewild Airport t