In these past days, the news was divulged that Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon was elected unanimously to a send five-year mandate. S/RES/1987 (2011) is the Council resolution that expresses the support for it as the process goes. The re-appointment was no surprise to the UN observers, since the organization was still following the regional rotation which traditionally grants two five-year terms to the candidates, as was the case with Kofi Annan or Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. There is little reason to believe that the re-appointment will change the status quo of the organization.
