{"id":36265,"date":"2026-01-16T03:04:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=36265"},"modified":"2026-01-16T03:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:04:22","slug":"un-chief-sounds-alarm-on-global-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=36265","title":{"rendered":"UN chief sounds alarm on global cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres lashed out Thursday at world leaders who he said were seeking to &#8220;put international cooperation on deathwatch&#8221; amid brazen violations of international law, but held off naming offending countries.<\/p>\n<p>He also reiterated that he was &#8220;deeply concerned about the violent repression in Iran,&#8221; ahead of an emergency Security Council meeting on the crisis scheduled for later Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres, who will step down at the end of 2026, was giving his last annual speech setting out his priorities for the year ahead and said the world was riven with &#8220;self-defeating geopolitical divides (and) brazen violations of international law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also slammed &#8220;wholesale cuts in development and humanitarian aid&#8221; \u2014\u00a0an apparent reference to deep cuts to the budgets of UN agencies made by the United States under the Trump administration&#8217;s &#8220;America First&#8221; policies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These forces and more are shaking the foundations of global cooperation and testing the resilience of multilateralism itself,&#8221; Guterres told the General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At a time when we need international cooperation the most, we seem to be the least inclined to use it and invest in it. Some seek to put international cooperation on deathwatch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Guterres said the UN is &#8220;totally committed in the cause of peace in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan and far beyond and tireless in delivering life-saving aid to those so desperate for support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those three deadly, protracted conflicts have come to define Guterres&#8217;s time at the helm of the UN, with critics arguing the organization has proved ineffective at conflict prevention.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has questioned the UN&#8217;s relevance and attacked its priorities. The organization&#8217;s top decision-making body, the Security Council, is paralyzed because of tensions between the US and Russia and China, all three of which are permanent, veto-wielding members.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres lashed out Thursday at world leaders who he said were seeking to &#8220;put international cooperation on deathwatch&#8221; amid brazen violations of international law, but held off naming offending countries. He also reiterated that he was &#8220;deeply concerned about the violent repression in Iran,&#8221; ahead of an emergency Security Council meeting on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}