Category: António Guterres

Moscow Gives UN 90 Days to Meet Conditions for Reactivating Grain Deal

Moscow has given the U.N. Secretariat-General three months to meet its conditions for reactivating a year-old agreement that had allowed Ukraine to export grain through the Black Sea. “The U.N. has three months to achieve concrete results,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on July 19. Otherwise, she inferred, the agreement would be considered…


UN Chief Warns of Global Economic Crisis at World Economic Forum in Davos

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres offered a grim outlook on the global economic during the World Economic Forum’s 2023 summit in Davos, Switzerland, warning of a possible worldwide economic downturn. “We are looking into the eye of a Category 5 hurricane. Our world is plagued by a perfect storm on a number of fronts,” Guterres…


China Is Laughing at Us

Commentary Europe is rapidly de-industrializing. German factories are going dark. French and Dutch farmers can’t afford to heat greenhouses. Millions of Brits are facing energy poverty. And Americans are still struggling to put food on the table or pay their energy bills. These disasters largely all stem from Western leaders’ devotion to the cult of climate extremism, and the calamitous decisions to replace fossil…


UN Chief Warns of Food Shortage ‘Catastrophe’

BERLIN—The head of the United Nations warned Friday that the world faces “catastrophe” because of the growing shortage of food around the globe. “There is a real risk that multiple famines will be declared in 2022,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a video message to officials from dozens of rich and developing countries gathered…


Energy Security Is National Security

Commentary As Ukraine burns and a worldwide inflationary crisis threatens to crush the living standards of working people everywhere, out-of-touch political elites continue to bring the global conversation back to climate change. Even as climate evangelists like Boris Johnson and Elon Musk call for a temporary pause on the rollout of “renewable” energy as fuel…


UN Secretary-General Guterres Tells Countries to Endure High Gas Prices for the Environment

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addressed the United Nations on Monday, cautioning world leaders not to embrace new coal or natural gas imports for the short-term economic advantage of easing cost of living for citizens to the detriment of environmental considerations, warning about the purportedly imminent dangers of climate change as forecast by the IPCC’s predictive models….


‘No New Coal Plants Should Be Built’: UN Secretary-General to World Economic Forum

In a special address to the World Economic Forum’s Davos Agenda 2022, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said that “no new coal plants should be built.” “This must be a priority for us all—to phase-out coal,” he said. Guterres, a former prime minister of Portugal who also previously led the Socialist International, has served as…


UN Secretary-General Calls to Ban ‘Killer Robots’

News Analysis On Monday, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opened a conference in Geneva by calling for a ban on lethal autonomous weapons (LAWs). “I encourage the Review Conference to agree on an ambitious plan for the future to establish restrictions on the use of certain types of autonomous weapons,” said the Secretary-General at the opening…


UN Chief Guterres Appointed for Second Term

NEW YORK—United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was appointed for a second-five year-term on Friday by the 193-member U.N. General Assembly. “I will give it my all to ensure the blossoming of trust between and among nations large and small, to build bridges, and to engage relentlessly in confidence building,” Guterres told the General Assembly after…