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SECRETARY-GENERAL: ‘Will António Guterres be the UN's best ever secretary general?’, Guardian, 1 January 2017

The Portuguese socialist, who becomes the next UN Secretary General on Sunday, is an intellectual who grew up under Portugal's dictatorship and came of age with the 1974 revolution that ended 48 years of authoritarian rule. Crucial to understanding Guterres, 67, is his Christian faith: his progressive Catholicism always informed his brand of social democratic politics. 'Will António Guterres be the UN's best ever secretary general?', Guardian, 1 January 2017

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