As the “risks of escalation” in Ukraine increase, the world is heading “with eyes wide open” towards “a broader war,” the UN secretary-general told the General Assembly on Monday in alarm.
War in Ukraine, climate crisis, extreme poverty… “We begin the year 2023 with our sights set on a convergence of challenges never seen in our lifetime”, Antonio Guterres declared.
“We must wake up”
The group of scientists that manages the doomsday clock also recently estimated that humanity has never been so close to the end of the world, now at 90 seconds to midnight, he recalled, including displaying an alarm signal.
“We need to wake up and get to work,” he insisted, listing the pressing issues for 2023. High on that list is the war in Ukraine.
“I’m afraid the world is not sleepwalking towards a broader war, but I’m afraid it’s actually doing it with its eyes wide open,” he said, before sighing with concern about other threats to peace, from the conflict. Israeli-Palestinian to Afghanistan via Burma, the Sahel or Haiti.
Source: BFM TV
