UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pleaded for “a world built on interdependence” as he addressed world leaders at the General Assembly on Tuesday.
“The fault lines in our world are widening,” he said, citing raging wars, rising temperatures and artificial intelligence, among other matters. Instead of letting the future continue to veer toward fragmentation, transnationalism and mistrust, he called for “a world built on interdependence – and sustained by a dense web of economic, political, social and technological connections.”
His speech opened the main portion of the world’s biggest diplomatic meeting of the year. Leaders from the UN’s 193 member countries address each other and the international community and air their hopes, plans and grievances.
