United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called for strengthening international solidarity to tackle a wide range of global challenges, from climate change and geopolitical division to deepening inequality and conflict.

According to the United Nations Information Center, Guterres said - during an interview with UN News ahead of the annual high-level week of the General Assembly - that we need to change course, my goal is to make it very clear that we need cooperation and dialogue, but the current terrible geopolitical divisions do not allow that it happens.”

The United Nations Secretary-General has just returned from a visit of solidarity to flood-stricken Pakistan, where he has repeatedly called for speed and seriousness not only to end what he called "climate carnage" but to provide more support to countries most affected by climate change even though they have done little Too much to cause this phenomenon.

“We need to increase support for developing countries, not just in terms of emissions reductions, but in terms of resilience, in building the sustainable infrastructure needed for those countries to be able to withstand the impacts that are already beginning to have significant repercussions,” the Secretary-General said. Climate hotspots in the world are countries that have not contributed significantly to climate change.

The Secretary-General stressed the need for more dedicated and prudent diplomacy to bring about demonstrable change on difficult issues, including the global food shortage caused by the Russia-Ukraine crisis.

Guterres referred to the Black Sea pills initiative, which was mediated by the United Nations, and said: "I have proven that secret diplomacy is still capable of achieving what diplomacy by forums cannot achieve. To create the conditions in which the two sides inevitably begin to fight each other."

Source: Middle East News Agency