United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned of a looming “Great Fracture” in the world, describing existing global governance structures as failing to serve a changing world.
Speaking before world leaders in the United Nations Assembly Hall on Tuesday, Guterres called for sweeping changes to multilateral institutions, including reforming the powerful Security Council at the heart of the United Nations, and redesigning global financial systems. “The alternative to reform is not the status quo. The alternative to reform is further fragmentation,” he said. “It’s reform or rupture.
Guterres’ speech hit on long list of smoldering global issues, including bloody violence in Sudan, the Central African Republic, and Haiti; oppression in Myanmar and Afghanistan; and the potential threats of unfettered new technologies, including artificial intelligence.
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