Published February 16,2024
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres mentioned international politics is in a impasse and doesn’t work in favor of anybody.
In his opening speech on the sixtieth Munich Security Conference on Friday, Guterres addressed diplomats around the globe at a panel titled Growing the Pie: A Global Order That Works for Everyone.
“As the title of our discussion implies, today’s global order is not working for everyone. In fact, I will go further and say it’s not working for anyone. Our world is facing existential challenges, but the global community is more fragmented and divided than at any time during the past 75 years,” the UN chief mentioned.
Guterres mentioned there isn’t any justification for the Hamas assaults on Oct. 7 or Israel’s army response, which included collective punishment of the Palestinian individuals.
“The situation in Gaza is an appalling indictment of the deadlock in global relations. The level of death and destruction is shocking in itself, and the war is also spilling over borders across the region and affecting global trades.”
The UN chief mentioned the humanitarian assist operation is now not on life help in Gaza however is barely functioning.
“Humanitarians are working under unimaginable conditions, including live fire, multiple physical obstacles — and these are all restrictions — as well as the breakdown of public order.”
— ATTACK ON RAFAH TO BE DEVASTATING FOR GAZANS
Commenting on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vowing to hold out an in depth army offensive on Rafah within the southern Gaza Strip, Guterres mentioned the army motion on the densely populated metropolis ought to by no means happen.
“Rafah is at the core of the entire humanitarian aid operation. An all-out offensive on the city will be devastating for the 1.5 million Palestinian civilians there, who are already on the edge of survival.”
The UN chief reiterated his name for the rapid and unconditional launch of all hostages and a humanitarian cease-fire within the besieged enclave, saying: “That is the only way to massively scale up a delivery in Gaza. And this must be the foundation for concrete and reversible steps toward a two-state solution based on international law and UN resolutions.”
— ‘UKRAINE WAR HAS NO PLACE IN EUROPE’
The UN chief later commented on the struggle in Ukraine, saying the price of human lives is appalling.
“The struggle triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in clear violation of the UN Charter has no place in Europe of the twenty first century. Two years in, the price of human lives and struggling is appalling and the influence on the worldwide financial system has been notably devastating for growing international locations.
“We desperately need a just and sustained peace for Ukraine, for Russia and the world; but a peace in line with UN Charter and international law, which establishes the obligation to respect the territorial integrity of sovereign states.”
In his comparability of at this time’s “world order” to the earlier eras, the UN chief mentioned: “Even the Cold War era was in some ways less dangerous. The threat of nuclear war was real and existential. That’s why the United States and the Soviet Union agreed on arms reductions and controls and other mechanisms to prevent mutually assured destruction.”
“Today, in our multipolar worlds, we still face nuclear dangers and we are dealing with two more threats with existential dimensions, the climate crisis and the risks of uncontrolled artificial intelligence and we have been unable to take effective steps to respond to any of these existential challenges.”
Guterres says the multipolarity has created vital alternatives for steadiness and justice for brand spanking new management on the worldwide stage.
“But the transition to multipolarity without strong global institutions can create chaos. When power relations are vague, the dangers of aggressive opportunism and miscalculation grow and today we see countries doing whatever they like, with no accountability. Impunity seems to be the name of the game. And so we must all be determined to reestablish the primacy of the rule of law.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr