{
  "id": 15956053,
  "title": "Competition for Grossi as UAE nominates top official to lead United Nations",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/competition-for-grossi-as-uae-nominates-top-official-to-lead-united",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-21T20:57:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Buenos Aires Times",
    "slug": "buenos-aires-times",
    "url": "https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/world/competition-for-grossi-as-uae-nominates-top-official-to-lead-united-nations.phtml"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The United Arab Emirates has nominated its Foreign Ministry official, Lana Nusseibeh, to run in the race to lead the United Nations. Nusseibeh is a respected minister of state at the UAE Foreign Ministry and has previously represented Abu Dhabi at the UN. Nusseibeh expressed her candidacy, stating, \"I am standing to be Secretary-General because I believe this is a moment to act with greater urgency: to act earlier, bring people together across difference, and drive the work forward until it produces concrete results.\" After an informal straw poll last week, all 15 candidates for the next UN Secretary-General received veto power from five members of the UN Security Council. This left Rebeca Grynspan of Costa Rica as the frontrunner, alongside Guyanese former foreign minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett and Argentina's Rafael Grossi, the current head of the UN nuclear watchdog. Other candidates include Ecuador's Ivonne A-Baki, Maria Fernanda Espinosa, and Uganda's Olara Otunnu. The outgoing Secretary-General, António Guterres of Portugal, will leave his second five-year term on December 31, 2026. To be confirmed, a candidate must secure nine votes from the 15 Security Council members, while also avoiding a veto by the five major powers. The Security Council straw poll, established in the early 1980s, aims to resolve deadlocks caused by vetoes and has persisted despite criticism from countries who oppose its secretive process. The role of UN Secretary-General is traditionally rotated among different regions, with this election calling for a candidate from Latin America.",
  "summary": "Argentina's Rafael Grossi faces a new competitor in the rwace to be the next secretary-general of the United Nations. Leer más",
  "key_points": [],
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}