NEW YORK - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will use his annual address to world leaders next week to push for a global ceasefire until the end of 2020 so countries can fight the coronavirus pandemic, but he said opportunities will be lost because presidents and prime ministers are not physically in New York.
US President Donald Trump is the only leader considering delivering his address in person on the first day, when Guterres will also deliver his address in person. 'SIGNALS OF HOPE' Since the first call for the ceasefire in March as the coronavirus spread, Guterres said there had already been some"positive signals" with peace deals in Sudan, the start of talks between Afghanistan's government and the Taliban, a lull in violence in places like Syria, Libya and Ukraine and"intense negotiations" on a truce to lead to talks in Yemen.
He initially called for a global truce on March 23, but it took the 15-member UN Security Council more than three months to formally support his call because of a standoff between the United States and China. Globally there have been nearly 30 million novel coronavirus infections and more than 900,000 deaths, according to a Reuters tally.
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