“Our world has entered an era of chaos,” warns UN chief

”The world has entered an era of chaos“, warned UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday, denouncing the unprecedented divisions of the Security Council, unable to agree in the face of “terrible conflicts” that multiply on the planet.

“There are governments that ignore and undermine the very principles of multilateralism, without being held accountable at all. The Security Council, the main tool for world peace, is deadlocked due to geopolitical fissures”, he said when presenting his priorities for 2024 to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

“It is not the first time that the Security Council is divided. But it’s the worst. The current dysfunction is deeper and more dangerous“Guterres warned, before recalling that”During the Cold War, established mechanisms helped manage relations between the superpowers”.

But in the “In today’s multipolar world, no such mechanisms exist. Our world has entered an era of chaos”, he warned.

And the results “are in sight: a dangerous and unpredictable pitched battle with total impunity“Guterres said, concerned about new nuclear proliferation and the development of “new ways to kill each other and for humanity to annihilate itself”.

“There is so much anger, hate and noise in our world today! Every day and at the slightest opportunity there is war, it seems. Terrible conflicts that kill and maim civilians at unprecedented levels. Dialectical wars. Territory wars. culture wars”, he indicated.

From Sudan to Ukraine, from Gaza to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from Yemen to Burma, “Along with the proliferation of conflicts, global humanitarian needs are at an unprecedented level, but funding is not up to par“, lament.

In this context, Antonio Guterres urged governments around the world to take advantage of the “Future Summit” which will take place in September in New York, during the annual meeting of the UN General Assembly to “shape multilateralism for the years to come.”

Among the changesthat the world needs“, recalled his call for a thorough reform of the Security Council, the international financial system and the establishment of a “urgent tool to improve international responses to complex global impacts”, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.