Secretary General Guterres managed to skip over entirely the UN’s internal structural problems, including a bloated, inefficient bureaucracy and its dysfunctional Human Rights Council that includes amongst its members some of the world’s worst human
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres held one of his rare press conferences on September 14th ahead of the gathering of world leaders next week in New York for the annual General Assembly high level debate. He delivered an extremely stark message about the state of the world today.
The Secretary General’s opening remarks focused on climate change. He painted a “future of permanent and ubiquitous climate chaos on an unimaginable scale” unless “action is taken now, unless funds are disbursed now.” The gloom and doom message went on from there: