António Guterres, the next UN secretary general

António Guterres, the former Portuguese prime minister, will be the next UN secretary general, after the security council agreed he should replace Ban Ki-moon at the beginning of next year(2017).

Secretaries-General of the United Nations

	Trygve Lie	Norway	Feb. 1, 1946–April 10, 1953
	Dag Hammarskjöld	Sweden	April 10, 1953–Sept. 18, 1961
	U Thant*	Myanmar (Burma)	Nov. 30, 1962–Dec. 31, 1971
	Kurt Waldheim	Austria	Jan. 1, 1972–Dec. 31, 1981
	Javier Pérez de Cuellar	Peru	Jan. 1, 1982–Dec. 31, 1991
	Boutros Boutros-Ghali	Egypt	Jan. 1, 1992–Dec. 31, 1996
	Kofi Annan	Ghana	Jan. 1, 1997–Dec. 31, 2006
	Ban Ki-moon	South Korea	Jan. 1, 2007–
*Acting secretary-general from Nov. 3, 1961. Flag of UN White and blue are the official colours of the United Nations. The Secretary-General's salary, which has not changed since 1997, is set at $227,253. The amount is determined by the General Assembly.