United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres will pay an official visit to Mongolia on August 9-11. He officially took his duties on January 1, 2017, and this is his first visit in Mongolia.
In 2005, António Guterres was elected by the UN General Assembly to become the 10th High Commissioner for Refugees, serving for a decade until the end of 2015. On October 13, 2016, António Guterres was appointed by the General Assembly as the ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations.