‘Our 1945 moment’: UN faces fears of a ‘great fracture’ at general assembly
Amid prerecorded speeches, secretary-general issues warning over US-China rivalry at an unprecedented moment
“Today, we face our own 1945 moment,” the United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, said as he opened the UN’s 75th general assembly, to a thinly populated chamber of socially distanced diplomats.
Guterres meant the historical reference as a call to action inspired by the generation who had survived the second world war and sought to build a new world. A similarly concerted effort, he said, would be needed to defeat Covid and the pandemics that may follow, and the climate emergency.
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