# As Guterres prepares to leave, what can the next UN chief actually do?

https://mins.news/en/video/67273

- Al Jazeera English, 2026-09-21 11:36 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62FnddfBMUk

> World leaders are gathering in New York for the 2026 UN General Assembly as the search for Antonio Guterres’s successor gets under way. The secretary-general has major symbolic importance but limited executive authority, as shown by the UN task force’s failure to reopen the Strait of Hormuz months after it was created.

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