This Week in Global Dev: #167: The latest in the UN secretary-general race
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This Week in Global Dev: #167: The latest in the UN secretary-general race

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 22, 202643 min
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This week, we take a look at the latest in the U.N. secretary-general race. In the latest informal straw poll to gauge support for the next U.N. secretary-general, Costa Rican diplomat Rebeca Grynspan secured the nine Security Council votes needed to advance but faced opposition from two permanent members — meaning the threat of a veto remains. The race is far from over, as new candidates can still enter at any point in the process. We also contemplate what kind of secretary-general the Trump administration would want and support. During the conversation, we also discussed the speech of the U...

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My name is David Engsworth and you're listening to This Week in Global Development hosted by myself, Richard Kamber and Abba Saldingham. And I'm joined by my managing editor, Anna Govell, and I've seen your reporter, Colin Lynch, to chat about development and geopolitics for the most part, which is an absolute treat. We've got, Colin was extremely knowledgeable

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about that. Before we started, I wanted to shout out one of our regular podcast listeners, Gary Forster who wrote in and said something really nice about us a couple of weeks ago. This was one of his favourite podcasts to listen to was he was mowing the lawn. Previously, people have told us that they listened to this podcast when they were out running. Gary said

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that mowing the lawn was more for him. What made me think of it is that I looked outside the window just now. Gary lives not far away from me in the United Kingdom and it's absolutely drenched. It's raining cats and dogs. I just thought about the fact that Gary's lawn is not going to get much love at the moment. So he's still listening somehow. Well,

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