As the “risks of escalation” in Ukraine grow, the world is moving “with eyes wide open” to a “broader war,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, AFP reports.
The war in Ukraine, the climate crisis, extreme poverty… “We started 2023 with a confluence of challenges that we have not seen in our lifetime,” António Guterres said on Monday before the UN General Assembly.
Moreover, the group of scientists who run the Doomsday Clock recently calculated that humanity has never been closer to the end of the world, now 90 seconds to midnight, he recalled, taking this as a wake-up call.
“We need to wake up and get down to business,” Guterres insisted, enumerating a list of pressing issues for 2023.
The war in Ukraine is at the top of this list. “Prospects for peace continue to diminish. The risks of further escalation and further carnage continue to rise,” he said.
“I fear that the world is moving in its sleep towards a larger war, but I fear that it is actually doing so with its eyes wide open,” the UN chief said, before voicing his concern about other threats to peace from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to Afghanistan, as well as Myanmar, the Sahel or Haiti.
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