[GREATERKASHMIR] The world has never been more threatened or more divided, and is facing the "greatest cascade" of crises, UN Secretary General António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
told global leaders on Tuesday, sounding an alarm over the COVID-19 pandemic, a climate crisis pummeling the planet and an upheaval in Afghanistan and other nations that is thwarting peace.
Two words: French Revolution. Robespierre. Napoleon Bonaparte. Austerlitz. Corunna. Badajoz. Lines of Torres Vedras. Waterloo.
Guterres, in his address to the opening of the General Debate of the 76th Session of the General Assembly, said that human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
are under fire, science is under assault and economic lifelines for the most vulnerable are coming too little and too late, if they come at all, and solidarity is missing in action just when the world need it the most.
Two words: Romulus Augustus. Vandals and Visigoths. Huns. The murder of Aetius.
"I am here to sound the alarm: The world must wake up. We are on the edge of an abyss — and moving in the wrong direction. Our world has never been more threatened. Or more divided. We face the greatest cascade of crises in our lifetimes," he said.
One word: Mohammad. Genghis Khan. Tamerlane. Turks, Seljuk and Ottoman. Sack of Constantinople. Fall of the Byzantine Empire.
The annual high-level week, which had to be held virtually last year due to the raging COVID-19 pandemic, returned to a hybrid format this year with over 100 Heads of State and Government as well as foreign ministers and diplomats scheduled to address world leaders in-person from the iconic General Assembly Hall here.
Two words: Great Plague. Actually repeated Great Plagues. A third of Europe dead.
Outlining the crises facing the world today, Guterres said that the COVID-19 pandemic has supersized glaring inequalities, the climate crisis is pummeling the planet, the upheaval from Afghanistan to Æthiopia to Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
and beyond has thwarted peace and a surge of mistrust and misinformation is polarising people and paralysing societies.
Two words: Adolf Hitler. Anschluss. I feel a lot more secure in my world than my grandfather did in his. All he had to worry about was Archduke Ferdinand, the fall of the Hapsburg Empire, and Kaiser Bill. And D'Annunzio and Benito Mussolini.
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...told global leaders on Tuesday, sounding an alarm over the COVID-19 pandemic, a climate crisis pummeling the planet and an upheaval in Afghanistan and other nations that is thwarting peace.
Two words: French Revolution. Robespierre. Napoleon Bonaparte. Austerlitz. Corunna. Badajoz. Lines of Torres Vedras. Waterloo.
Guterres, in his address to the opening of the General Debate of the 76th Session of the General Assembly, said that human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
are under fire, science is under assault and economic lifelines for the most vulnerable are coming too little and too late, if they come at all, and solidarity is missing in action just when the world need it the most.
Two words: Romulus Augustus. Vandals and Visigoths. Huns. The murder of Aetius.
"I am here to sound the alarm: The world must wake up. We are on the edge of an abyss — and moving in the wrong direction. Our world has never been more threatened. Or more divided. We face the greatest cascade of crises in our lifetimes," he said.
One word: Mohammad. Genghis Khan. Tamerlane. Turks, Seljuk and Ottoman. Sack of Constantinople. Fall of the Byzantine Empire.
The annual high-level week, which had to be held virtually last year due to the raging COVID-19 pandemic, returned to a hybrid format this year with over 100 Heads of State and Government as well as foreign ministers and diplomats scheduled to address world leaders in-person from the iconic General Assembly Hall here.
Two words: Great Plague. Actually repeated Great Plagues. A third of Europe dead.
Outlining the crises facing the world today, Guterres said that the COVID-19 pandemic has supersized glaring inequalities, the climate crisis is pummeling the planet, the upheaval from Afghanistan to Æthiopia to Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
and beyond has thwarted peace and a surge of mistrust and misinformation is polarising people and paralysing societies.
Two words: Adolf Hitler. Anschluss. I feel a lot more secure in my world than my grandfather did in his. All he had to worry about was Archduke Ferdinand, the fall of the Hapsburg Empire, and Kaiser Bill. And D'Annunzio and Benito Mussolini.