FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2020, file photo, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Lahore, Pakistan. Guterres expressed hope Tuesday, June 23, 2020 that Israel will hear global calls and will not go ahead with annexation of parts of the West Bank, which would undermine a two-state solution to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The U.N. chief said in an interview with The Associated Press ahead of Friday’s anniversary of the signing of the U.N. Charter in San Francisco in 1945 that even during the period of “mega-confrontation” between the former Soviet Union and the United States, and with all the problems in the world today, “we do not have a major confrontation among the big powers.”
The U.N. chief has spoken repeatedly about the rise of populism triggering increasing threats to multilateralism. He has often denounced what he calls a “groundswell of xenophobia, racism and intolerance,” including anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim hatred. In his “state of the world” speech last September, Guterres warned of the looming risk of the world splitting in two, with the United States and China creating rival Internets, currency, trade, financial rules “and their own zero sum geopolitical and military strategies.” Nine months later, he thinks the “split is real” and “we are witnessing this divide deepening.
For example, he said, the World Health Organization has very little power to get countries to do what it thinks best for tackling COVID-19 or to make countries cooperate in trying to end the pandemic. International bodies also have very little power to force governments and societies “to adopt all the necessary measures to defeat climate change,” he said.
The U.N. has launched a global discussion process for its 75th anniversary and Guterres said it has received 120,000 responses from people in 193 countries about how they see the future. He said there have also been more than 1,000 meetings on issues including international cooperation and what the U.N.’s priorities should be.
The League’s major achievement has been not being kicked out of NYC!
UN is the only organization of hope out of hopelessness on Earth that fosters inter-nations peace, security, safety, public health, economy, education and co-habitation..so much to be thankful of founding Leaders' early vision beyond the League of Nations..
Oh thank goodness it was the UN. I thought it was because they are all nuclear armed.
Well not totally correct. There had been numerous wars and killings around the world, based of ideologies of the left and they have brutal. For example in Africa, SE Asia, Europe, Middle East, etc. The UN has been a total failure!
UN is useless and just wasting our money.
Nah, the atomic age put another world war on hold and not the UN.
Uh Sure...
UN is impotent and ineffective.
Jinx?!
People think it isn’t possible..which is nuts. I am grateful for the UN and what remains of the EU and for what remains of the USA, may we ( 🇺🇸) be truly United again, without war being the catalyst.
Fk the UN Sorry time to dismantle this shit hole and cancer. Nothing is workable just fully dysfunctional and only has turned into a social club and me me me objectives Fk them close it up, lock some of them up and demolish the UN and turn it into a great park and playground
This is the most low key UN Secretary General in my lifetime. By that, I meant disappointing....
You could also credit television, spaceships, computers, polyester clothing, or any other contemporaneous thing that just happened to develop over the same period. Coincidence does not imply causality.
UN's days are numbered. Will be a happy day when they are told to go home and find a job
The f*ck the UN can take credit for THAT. 😂 What a joke. Nuclear war was avoided thanks to multiple American presidents, not thanks to the paper-tiger UN.
The biggest accomplishment has been ripping off the United States UN The United States of America has been the United Nations BITCH way too long!!! No more. What say you antonioguterres
*for now...
laquialene69 Please don’t give anyone any ideas
The white people didn’t fight each other. Racist fuck
God knows we’re teetering on the edge every freaking day.
And how many millions were destroyed in the wars the US and its allies waged since 1945? Yeah... What an accomplishment!! I’m sure the citizens of Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, North Korea, China, Iraq, Syria, Serbia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Palestine, Namibia, etc. are so proud!
Is he clueless?! Look at Palestine! Look at what the UN has done to Palestine! Shame on him! How could he think there were no big power wars?! What does he call everything in the Middle East and Africa. What a completely vapid minded man.
You can't just take credit for that. I highly doubt Stanislav Petrov was thinking of the U.N when he decided against nuke launches.
Hate to bust your bubble, but look at around you, what do you think is happening right now? UnrestrictedWarfare
He calls that 'the biggest accomplishment' of the United Nations 'the long period since W.W. II that the most important powers didn’t fight against each other and nuclear war was avoided'
The two important powers? U.S. and Soviets... they destroyed the third position - great...
The world has seen constant wars since the end of WW 2 but they like to point to Germany + Japan as some kind of scapegoats for something
Hmmm? But hundreds of not too little wars is what?
'most important powers' is the keyword there because...... India-China, India-Pakistan, UK-Ireland, NKorea-SKorea to name a few.. ?
That does not take away the numerous countries these important power invaded and plundered in the 75 years history of the impotent UN
He's right.
ALHAMDULILLAH
burnt wood would never have never burn again. :) Would UN want to talk about its failures. It failed to curtail Religious Terrorism, unbridled US Hegemony in middle east, Illegal immigration, to name a few...
Calling Donald Trump
Actually; I'm takin credit for all that- That's how it works right- Pick something that hasn't happened then take credit for it not having happened. 🤣😂. What a joke- I'm also responsible for keeping an alien invasion at bay. 😂🤣
What were Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Syria then?
Way to jinx it
Aw shit, now he’s just jinxed us. Does he know about our maniac president?
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