The United Nations headquarters before a meeting on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in New York on April 27 | REUTERS

GENEVA – The 10th United Nations secretary-general will be elected this year for a five-year term starting on Jan. 1, 2027.

Here are the candidates so far running to take over ⁠from outgoing U.N. chief Antonio Guterres.

Rafael Grossi, a 65-year-old career diplomat from Argentina, has been an omnipresent, hyperactive director general of the U.N. nuclear watchdog for the past six years.

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