Guterres urges world leaders to ‘get serious and deliver’

New York UNHQ( Zeeshan Shamsi ) Speaking at a press conference at the UN Headquarters on Tuesday in New York, UN secretary General warned that global divisions, conflicts and crises have taken the very principle of international cooperation to its most fragile inflection point in decades.“Some call it the World Cup of diplomacy,”he said 

The UN chief described a world adrift  “turbulent, uncharted waters,” listing widening geopolitical divides, escalating conflicts, climate change, runaway technologies, and rising inequalities, as challenges that demand urgent solutions.“International cooperation is straining under pressures unseen in our lifetimes,” he said.Nearly 150 heads of state and government are in New York, alongside thousands of officials and diplomats. Mr. Guterres said he would personally hold more than 150 bilateral meetings, pressing leaders “to speak directly with each other, to bridge divides, to reduce risks, to find solutions.”