UN Secretary-General briefs the press on his priorities for 2020

Secretary-General António Guterres today (4 Feb) said, “a wind of madness is sweeping the globe,” noting that “from Libya to Yemen to Syria and beyond – escalation is back, arms are flowing, and offensives are increasing.”

Speaking to journalists in New York, Guterres said, “there is a feeling of growing instability and hair-trigger tensions, which makes everything far more unpredictable and uncontrollable, with a heightened risk of miscalculation.” Meanwhile, he added, “Security Council resolutions are being disrespected even before the ink is dry.”

The Secretary-General said, “the disquiet in streets and squares across the world is proof that people want to be heard. They want world leaders to answer their anxieties with effective action. That means addressing cascading challenges and breaking what I call the vicious circles that define our day.”

Turning to climate change, the Secretary-General said, “the challenge for this year’s climate conference in Glasgow, COP 26, is clear: all countries must show more ambition on adaptation, mitigation and finance. And the big emitters must lead the way. We need a price on carbon, and an end to subsidies for fossil fuels.”

He said, “we are still seeing too many plans for coal plants – the addiction to coal remains dangerously strong.”

These big emitters, Guterres said, “are well known” including “the European Union, that has affirmed its commitment to it. The United States, China, India, Japan, Russia.”

Responding to questions he said he was “deeply frustrated with what’s happening in Libya” and added that “what’s happening is a scandal.”

He said, “we had a number of countries coming together in Berlin where they committed not to interfere in the Libyan process, and they committed not to send weapons or to participate on any way in the fighting. Now, the truth is that the Security Council embargo remains violated. We still see planes coming both to Misrata and to Benghazi. We haven’t seen any relevant stop in the respect or the disrespect of the arms embargo, and the truce that has lasted for a few days has been dramatically violated and we have seen offensives and military operations of different sorts.”

Asked to name those countries, Guterres said, “we have equipment, namely drones, which provide from the United Arab Emirates. That there’s been movement through Egypt. That you have Turkish troops – that by the way were confirmed by Turkey – and that there are mercenaries from Sudan, and that there was also elements of a Russian private company operating in the country.”

Finally, on the new Middle East peace plan presented by the United States, the Secretary-General said, “we are the guardians of UN resolutions and of international law in relation to the Palestinian question. We are totally committed to the two-state solution and we are totally committed to support Israelis and the Palestinians to come to a peace process with a two-state solution based on international law, based on Security Council and General Assembly resolutions and based on the borders of 1967.”

[brentsummers]

The UN is excellent at identifying problems but over the years has got worse and worse at fixing any of them.

[aatt]

The extreme gripp against Saudis yet ignoring irans anomalies for the sake of Palestinians.. Is shameful

[정윤수-fu]

Save our planet. Longing for peace and stability.

[phillipsonmarak]

please save the Bangladesh 's problem as soon as possible. Yours Sincerely, Phillipson M Marak

[MingusCasey]

ironic that all the biggest emitters also have the most nukes and targets.
funny that.

[Julio]

"100 seconds to midnight".
"Winds of madness".


Just, what is happening with our species. This is a level of regression we could never have even thought of reaching.
I hope it is effectively impossible for us to sink deeper into the chaos we are already engulfed in.
I can just hope for it.

[biplobprasad]

Dear Secretary General Sir Antonio Guterres Waiting my life partner and me 6 years misinformation UN bangladesh office watch me local news media Sir Bill Gates details D Rail country UN office close and stop solve problem Pray for peace all tne best

[remsorian]

I know it will bother you a lot how long I sit on the computer You have to understand that it is 3:00 in the morning a lot of people are bothered and others try to do all sorts of things You have to understand that it is 3:00 in the morning

[colleylanding]

WELL COME TO UNICEF AFRICA UNICEF BEIJING

[colleylanding]

this all you work from unicef to world bank to imf with all the pain i am having with me with the harm you cause to me this is your work so my money

[westpapualiberation]

Why UNSG forgot to focus on Decolonization especially of West Papua or Netherlands New Guinea according to the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 448/V.

Decolonization of West Papua failed because of US Mining Freeport McMoran

[colleylanding]

NOW I WANT TO KNOW HOW DID THIS GRIL KNOW ME FROM WHERE

[pval]

US should fight Romania. Get established.

[mahmutgerek]

DURUMU ANLAMANIZ İÇİN VİRUS UN GÖRÜNTÜLERİNİ GÖRMENİZ GEREKLİ BENDE LABARATUAR GÖRÜNTÜLERİ VAR TALEP OLURSA PAYLAŞIRIM

[mrsdeyanira]

the social organization in the world and its functions or jobs

1.- Buddhist kings of MESSIA BUDHA AND ITS 12 DISCIPLES
2.- JEQUES followers for the human prophet of monotheistic Buddhism
3.- academics
4.- technologists
5.- high school graduates
6.- first level of studies or primary
7.- without study

the trades and their gear is the great social network that helps and allows its full and organized development
equality is given within this order because all are integral, participatory and represented by a sovereign who deals with his subordinates to meet the needs of the populations in charge

The appearance of the false Marxism of the Jew Carlos Marx was manipulated by the Germans transforming the author's intention by interpreting it with an atheistic, pagan and inquisitorial criterion gestated and orchestrated by the global manipulators of the networks against the spiritual good and taking it to the plane of pleasure with wrong and biased gratifications to tame the human animal

Transitional justice is not exercising this function and is co-maintaining the maintenance of abuse against humans even with plans to reduce the population and poison it already with drugs, or by any technological means that facilitates the politics of fear to submit for necessity of false and destructive protection

Economies work in the exchange of elements produced by countries and the abolition of the fantasy of gold as currency without real support of the aforementioned metal ....

serving is a natural task, each scale is intimately linked with the superior and should not be used again manipulative terms of oppression, humiliation, etc ... are words born of anagrams with a criterion of misinformation and adaptation of corrupt policies

the spiritual order governs even the kingdom must be supported by its doctrine, the religious staff will still be subject to the kingdom and is in charge of forming to conquer enlightenment the real sense of the thinking animal that cannot live for worldly pleasure distorting the work of the individual in being the builder of his spiritual and non-carnal dwelling, as a gueshela put it well when he exposes that he does not leave the basement in which he is born and do not ascend to the first floor to know him, less to the hundred floor, so it is the function of being born, but if you visit the basement of the eight-level pentagon ...

[aatt]

Democrat gave very beautiful civil movement against Muslim banns.. Yet their extreme failure in derricating assad Muslim killer is very illustrative how inconsistencies their politics are

[JeanGuernon]

2020 sea temp: 228 zeta joules above the limits of 2000, new high in CO2, but carbon neutrality by 2050 will warrant a maximum of 1, 5 degree elevation from the by the end of the century. Every product should have the CO2/NH3 used data in the barcode, or in the 'end product' bill anyway, so that a tax can be used for the reverse effect, in every country; that is how you finance that, not otherwise, until the goal is reached. That is the way to modify the behavior since more carbon neutral alternatives will be more attractive.

And about the Palestinian, they are not a state yet! And the UN is not legitimate in that conflict to begin with because of that. The PLO doesn't care to look into any peace plan because of the UN's initiative. And Israel has the right to retain some of the seized territory in 67 for its security, because it was attacked, if it had been otherwise, like with Russia, which attacked Ukraine, then yes, they would have to leave the territory, but not in this situation. According to the spirit of the resolution 242. It takes negotiations, or else there will only be less hope for a two state solution. They are not going to accept another Gaza (which is virtually occupied ... by Iran) or return of refugee any more than Arab countries want return of the Jews they have thrown out of all their countries. Etc. It is an existential threat. BTW the Arab League should have no say in this, they are the enemies of Israel, what gives? But besides that antisemitism of the UN, its leadership not too bad, given the gravity of all the situations.
(In fact, if I make abstraction of this, it is great, even if it is limited by the member states. But this, I am not sure that even Kofi Annan would see it the same way, sorry about that.)

[shyamsundergoswami]

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