UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the world had entered an age of “reckless disruption and relentless human suffering” as he offered a pessimistic global outlook to world leaders gathered in New York.
Guterres lamented “sovereign nations invaded, hunger weaponized, truth silenced, rising smoke from bombed-out cities, rising anger from fractured societies” in his speech marking the start of this year’s high-level meeting of the UN General Assembly.
He called for an end to the war in Ukraine. He didn’t criticize Israel by name but said that in Gaza, “the scale of death and destruction are beyond any other conflict in my years as secretary-general.”
“The principles of the United Nations that you have established are under siege,” Guterres said.
Guterres’s remarks begin a week of speeches from global leaders. He was to be followed later Tuesday morning by Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and US President Donald Trump, who was set to “touch upon how globalist institutions have significantly decayed the world order,” according to his spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt.
Written by: Augusta Saraiva @Bloomberg
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