UN Secretary-General advocates peace in 2025
03 January 2025 |
2:01 am
Secretary-General, United Nations, António Guterres, has stressed the need for global peace, in his New Year’s message. Throughout 2024, he observed, that hope was hard to find.
Secretary-General, United Nations, António Guterres, has stressed the need for global peace, in his New Year’s message. Throughout 2024, he observed, that hope was hard to find.
“Wars are causing enormous pain, suffering and displacement. Inequalities and divisions are rife, fuelling tensions and mistrust,” he said of 2024.
According to him, there are no guarantees for what is ahead in 2025; he, however, pledges to stand with all those working to forge a more peaceful, equal, stable and healthy future for all people.
He stated, “Together, we can make 2025 a new beginning. Not as a world divided, but as nations united.” He added: “Today, I can officially report that we have just endured a decade of deadly heat. The top ten 10 hottest years on record have happened in the last 10 years, including 2024. This is climate breakdown in real-time.”
In 2025, he suggested that countries must put the world on a safer path by dramatically slashing emissions and supporting the transition to a renewable future.
Expressing optimism, Guterres added: “I see hope in activists, young and old, raising their voices for progress. I see hope in the humanitarian heroes overcoming enormous obstacles to support the most vulnerable people. I see hope in developing countries fighting for financial and climate justice. I see hope in the scientists and innovators breaking new grounds for humanity.
And I saw hope in September when world leaders came together to adopt the Pact for the Future.” He explained the pact was a new push to build peace through disarmament and prevention; to reform the global financial system so it supports and represents all countries; to push for more opportunities for women and young people; to build guardrails so technologies put people over profits and rights over runaway algorithms and always, to stick to the values and principles enshrined by human rights, international law and the United Nations Charter.
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