File photo taken on July 12, 2016, shows Antonio Guterres of Portugal attending global town hall meeting with the candidates for the post of United Nations Secretary-General at the UN headquarters in New York, the United States. Former Portuguese prime minister and the former head of the UN refugee agency, Antonio Guterres, was unanimously selected Wednesday by the UN Security Council as the next UN secretary-general, succeeding UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Jan. 1, 2017, Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, who is the council president for October, announced here.(Xinhua/Li Muzi)