"The last two years have demonstrated a simple but brutal truth, if we leave anyone behind, in the end, we leave everyone behind," said the secretary-general at the opening of the virtual Davos summit.During a virtual event to open the notorious annual gathering of the World Economic Forum, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Mondaynot only humanity's poor handling of the coronavirus pandemic but also unequal economic recovery and inadequate climate action.
Guterres was one of the primary speakers for the first day of a weeklong event hosted by the World Economic Forum. Though typically held in the Swiss resort town Davos, the meeting's shift to an online format for the second year in a row was announced last month as the Omicron variant drove a surge in Covid-19 cases.
The global recovery, he said,"remains fragile and uneven amid the lingering pandemic, persistent labor market challenges, ongoing supply-chain disruptions, rising inflation, and looming debt traps, not to mention the geopolitical divide."
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