Immediately before Antonio Guterres was appointed the U N Secretary General in October 2016 he was ........

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Immediately before Antonio Guterres was appointed the U.N Secretary General in October 2016, he was

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Commissioner General of UNRWA

The Prime Minister of Portuguese

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Explanation:

Mr. Guterres, aged 67, was Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002, and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees from June 2005 to December 2015. He will become the world's top diplomat on 1 January 2017, and hold that post for the next five years. Adopting a consensus resolution put forward by its President, Peter Thomson, the Assembly acted on the recommendation on the UN Security Council, which on 6 October forwarded Mr. Guterres' name to the 193-member body as its nominee for UN Secretary-General for a five-year period, ending 31 December 2021.