LISBON, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- Correios de Portugal (CTT), the national postal service, issued on Wednesday the first day cover and two stamps marking the election of Antonio Guterres as the secretary general of the United Nations.
"With this issue, CTT has fulfilled one of the objectives of its stamp issues: the dissemination of themes and figures relevant to Portugal, generating an object that recorded the moment when Antonio Guterres started to function," the CTT said in a statement.
The stamp with the face value of 0.80 euros has a print of 105,000 copies, while the philatelic block, with the value of two euros, has a print of 40,000 copies.
Guterres, 67, was born in Lisbon, where he graduated in electrotechnical engineering at Instituto Superior Tecnico. He joined the current ruling Socialist Party in 1973 and in 1992 he was elected secretary general of the party.
From 1995 to 2002 he was prime minister of Portugal. In June of 2005 he was appointed as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which he held until the end of 2015.
He was elected as the UN secretary-general in October last year and took office on Jan. 1, replacing Ban Ki-moon.
