United Nations Security Council resolution 1090, adopted without a vote at a closed meeting on 13 December 1996, having considered the question of the recommendation for the appointment of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Council recommended to the General Assembly that Mr. Kofi Annan be appointed for a term of office from 1 January 1997, to 31 December 2001.

[1] Kofi Annan, a Ghanaian diplomat, was the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations.

The United States had vetoed another term for his predecessor, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, due to lack of reform.

[2] It was the first time that a Security Council resolution had been adopted by acclamation.

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