{"id":601034,"date":"2026-04-23T05:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/601034\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T05:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:56:11","slug":"un-leadership-race-takes-centre-stage-with-first-round-of-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/601034\/","title":{"rendered":"UN leadership race takes centre stage with first round of interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The race to become the next leader of the United Nations moved into a higher gear with the four declared candidates facing hours of questions over two days. Top among them: can the UN be made effective again?<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Rafael Grossi, an Argentine diplomat who heads the International Atomic Energy Agency, struck a downbeat note about the global body\u2019s future during his interview replace Secretary General Antonio Guterres.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThis election, or selection, process is so consequential, and this is because we are at a time when there are enormous, huge doubts about our institution,\u201d Grossi said on Tuesday. \u201cThe direction in which the UN is moving is not the one we would all like to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Michelle Bachelet, the former president of Chile, had her own gloomy assessment, saying: \u201cour world and the order based on international law that sustains it is under strain as never before\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"UN leadership candidates: Macky Sall, Michelle Bachelet, Rebeca Grynspan and Rafael Grossi. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/eafd06d2-0823-4ce9-bee6-d5017b6b8dfc_5cfd85f1.jpg\" title=\"UN leadership candidates: Macky Sall, Michelle Bachelet, Rebeca Grynspan and Rafael Grossi. Photo: AFP\"\/>UN leadership candidates: Macky Sall, Michelle Bachelet, Rebeca Grynspan and Rafael Grossi. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The other two candidates, senior UN official Rebeca Grynspan and former Senegal president Macky Sall were similarly pessimistic, with Grynspan saying trust in the organisation \u201cis waning and because time is running out to restore it\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The race to become the next leader of the United Nations moved into a higher gear with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,26741,198471,12,261461,261463,3,1567,261462,19598,4870,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-601034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-antonio-guterres","tag-board-of-peace","tag-donald-trump","tag-macky-sall","tag-michelle-bachelet","tag-news","tag-rafael-grossi","tag-rebeca-grynspan","tag-un","tag-united-nations","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}