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Trump Promotes Orban to UN Secretary General

The Trump administration promotes Orban as a joint candidate of the United States, Russia and China for the post of UN Secretary General.

Original: Трамп просуває Орбана на посаду генсека ООН

World 27 independent outlets · 93 articles translated from Ukrainian

What happened

Washington is looking for “someone like Orban”, and, according to the publication, Moscow and Beijing agreed to this.

What outlets write

  1. Volynski novyny 26 October, 08:28
    «The United States believes that China and Russia can also support this idea, and the former Prime Minister of Hungary will become a joint candidate for three permanent members of the UN Security Council»
  2. Hromadske 26 October, 08:42 and 2 more outlets
    «The US State Department believes that 8 out of 15 members of the UN Security Council can vote for Orban, but the number of votes can increase to 10»
  3. LIGA.net 26 October, 15:42
    «The head of Ukrainian diplomacy spoke against the background of the publication of the WSJ»
  4. RBC-Ukraine 26 October, 16:50
    «Sybiha recalled how Orban has thwarted key EU decisions for years»

What's next

According to The Wall Street Journal, the United States is considering the possibility of nominating Victor Orban as Secretary-General of the United Nations - the mandate of the current leader, Portuguese Antonio Guterres, expires on December 31.

Who reports

27 independent outlets · 93 articles

state Ukrinform FREEDOM Pivdenna Pravda
oligarch TSN (1+1) UNIAN Espreso
party 24 Kanal
commercial NV (New Time) Ukrainska Pravda Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (ZN.ua) Novyny.LIVE Slovo i Dilo RBC-Ukraine LIGA.net
non-profit Apostrophe Censor.NET