Warning of a possible new Cold War, the UN chief called on China and the United States to mend their "completely dysfunctional" relations before problems between the two major and deeply influential countries were resolved. Spread the word.
This was stated by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres while talking to AP before the annual meeting of UN world leaders.
He said the world's two major economic powers should cooperate on the environment and discuss trade and technology.
"Unfortunately, today is just a confrontation," he said.
"We need to re-establish an active relationship between the two powers to address the issues of vaccination, climate change and many other global challenges that the international community and fundamentally need to address," he said. But it cannot be resolved without constructive relations between the superpowers.
Two years ago, Antonio Guterres warned world leaders that "the world will be divided into two parts where the United States and China will develop their own Internet, currency, trade, financial rules and geopolitical and military strategies."
He reiterated the warning in an interview that the two rivals' geographical and military strategies would create "threats" and divide the world, so relations would have to be fixed and done soon.
"We need to avoid a Cold War at all costs that will be different from the war of the past and perhaps more dangerous and more difficult to manage," he said.
It should be noted that the so-called Cold War between the Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc allies and the United States and its Western allies began immediately after World War II and ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
'New Cold War could be more dangerous'
The UN chief said a new Cold War could be more dangerous because the enmity between the Soviets and the United States made clear rules and both sides were aware of the danger of nuclear catastrophe.
He said that this has given rise to channels and forums which guarantee that things will not get out of control.
"Everything is much easier today, and even the experience that was there in the past to handle crises is no longer there," he said.
He said the United States and Britain had agreed to provide Australia with nuclear-powered submarines so that they could operate in Asia without a trace. It's just a small piece of.
The secret deal has sparked outrage in China and France, which signed a dozen French conventional diesel-electric submarines worth at least 66 66 billion with Australia.
The role of the United Nations in the new Afghanistan
In the interview, the Secretary-General also focused on three major issues that world leaders will discuss at this week's meeting.
These include the worst environmental crisis, the still growing epidemic and the uncertain future of Afghanistan under Taliban rule.
What will be the role of the United Nations in the new Afghanistan? Antonio Guterres said that UN intervention would be able to form a comprehensive government and guarantee human rights, believing it was like living in a dream world.
He said that the United States and many other countries had thousands of troops in Afghanistan and they spent trillions of dollars and they were not able to solve the problems of the country and some say that they made it worse.
He said that although the United Nations had "limited capacity and limited benefits", it was still playing a key role in its efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to Afghans.
The United Nations is drawing the Taliban's attention to the importance of a comprehensive government that respects human rights, especially the rights of women and girls, he said.
He said there was clearly a power struggle between various groups led by the Taliban, but the situation was not yet clear. "This is another reason why the international community should engage with the Taliban," he said.
US-UN relations under Biden administration
While former US President Donald Trump was linked to the "America First" policy, current US President Joe Biden, who will appear as chief executive at a high-level session of the General Assembly on Tuesday, pledged US commitment to multilateralism. Confirmed.
Antonio Guterres said Biden's commitment to the global environmental process, including his rejoining the 2015 Paris Agreement, which Trump withdrew, was "perhaps the most important."
"Under Biden, there is a very different atmosphere in the relationship between the United Nations and the United States, but I am proud to be able to ensure that we have an active relationship with the United States in the past administration," he said. I did everything.
Antonio Guterres also lamented the failure to work together to combat global warming and ensure that vaccines are available to people in every country.
Vaccine inequality
Antonio Guterres called it "completely unacceptable" that 80% of the population in his native Portugal has been vaccinated while in many African countries less than 2% of the population has been vaccinated.
"It's completely stupid to defeat the virus, but if the virus spreads like wildfire in the south of the world, there will be more mutations, and we know that mutations can make it more transmissible," he said. And making it more dangerous. "
He reiterated at the G20 the world's 20 largest economic powers that failed to take concerted action against COD 19 in early 2020 to create the conditions for a global vaccination plan.
He said that such a project should be implemented by vaccine-producing countries in collaboration with international financial institutions and pharmaceutical companies to ensure double production and equal distribution.
"I think it's possible, but it depends on political aspirations," he said.
The Secretary-General said that rich and developed countries are spending about 20% of their GDP on recovery, middle-income countries about 6% and less developed countries 2% of short CGDP.
He says it has created frustration and mistrust in some parts of the developing world that have not been vaccinated or helped to recover.
He said the divide between developed countries in the north and developing countries in the south was "very dangerous for global security".
