UN chief warns of ‘an age of reckless disruption and relentless human suffering’
The head of the United Nations has challenged world leaders to choose a future where the rule of law triumphs over raw power and where nations come together rather than scramble for self-interests.
Secretary-general Antonio Guterres said the UN’s founders faced the same questions 80 years ago, but he told today’s world leaders at the opening of their annual gathering at the General Assembly that the choice of peace or war, law or lawlessness, co-operation or conflict, is “more urgent, more intertwined, more unforgiving”.
