Newsletter

UN Secretary-General issues five warning messages on world situation

UN Secretary-General issues five warning messages on world situation

2022-01-22 19:21:39Source: Xinhua News Agency

On January 21, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres briefed the UN General Assembly on his priorities for 2022. Xinhua

Xinhua News Agency, United Nations, January 21 (Reporter Shang Xuqian) When UN Secretary-General Guterres briefed the United Nations General Assembly on his priorities for 2022 on the 21st, he raised five warning signs on the world situation, namely the new crown epidemic and the shortcomings of the global financial governance system. , the climate crisis, the misuse of new technologies, armed conflict.

He noted that the world is facing “the highest level of fire”. The global COVID-19 pandemic faces uncertainty; rising inequality; rising inflation; worsening climate crisis, environmental pollution, and biodiversity loss; frequent political unrest and military conflicts; Hate and lies jam.

On January 21, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres briefed the UN General Assembly on his priorities for 2022. Xinhua

Guterres believes that the five warning signs are all related to the failure of global governance. He emphasized the harm caused by the uneven distribution of the new crown vaccine, the importance of reforming the existing global financial governance system, the urgency of addressing the climate crisis, the need to establish a people-oriented global governance system for the application of new technologies, and the elimination of armed conflicts, construction of the importance of peace.

How to respond to the five warning signs will determine the direction of human development in the coming decades, Guterres said. The world must go into “emergency mode” and all countries must act fully to “fight the fire”.