Talking at a press convention on the UN Headquarters on Tuesday in New York, he warned that international divisions, conflicts and crises have left the very precept of worldwide cooperation to its most fragile level in many years.
“Some name it the World Cup of diplomacy,” Mr. Guterres mentioned.
“However this can’t be about scoring factors – it have to be about fixing issues. There may be an excessive amount of at stake.”
Adrift in uncharted waters
The UN chief described a world adrift in “turbulent, uncharted waters,” itemizing widening geopolitical divides, escalating conflicts, local weather change, runaway applied sciences, and rising inequalities, as challenges that demand pressing options.
“Worldwide cooperation is straining underneath pressures unseen in our lifetimes,” he mentioned.
Almost 150 heads of state and authorities are anticipated in New York subsequent week, alongside hundreds of officers and diplomats.
Mr. Guterres mentioned he would personally maintain greater than 150 bilateral conferences, urgent leaders “to talk instantly with one another, to bridge divides, to scale back dangers, to search out options.”
UN chief’s key themes
The Secretary-Normal highlighted peace, local weather, accountable innovation, gender equality, growth financing and UN reform as central themes of the week.
He known as for pressing steps to finish wars in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan and past, and reiterated the necessity for “a simply, lasting peace within the Center East based mostly on a two-State resolution.”
On local weather, he urged international locations to deliver ahead stronger nationwide plans to maintain international warming beneath the 1.5°C threshold envisioned within the landmark 2015 Paris Settlement on local weather change – which appears more and more out of attain.
He additionally introduced the launch of a World Dialogue on AI Governance to make sure know-how develops with advantages to humanity “on the centre.”
No extra ‘posturing and guarantees’
The week will even characteristic a first-ever biennial summit bringing collectively worldwide monetary establishments and world leaders to advance commitments on financing the Sustainable Growth Objectives (SDGs) – that are severely off-track – in addition to commemorations of the thirtieth anniversary of the landmark Beijing convention on gender equality.
“The listing is lengthy as a result of the wants are nice,” Mr. Guterres mentioned, including that the present international crises demand not “posturing and guarantees” however management that’s dedicated to creating concrete progress.
He concluded with a blunt enchantment: “The United Nations is the place. Subsequent week is the time. Leaders should get severe – and ship.”
