After two years of general assemblies held using video for heads of state or government to speak due to the pandemic, the widespread return to the United Nations headquarters in New York was marked by the Secretary-General’s speech. A warning to leaders and diplomats about the “cascade of crises” and its effects that will soon culminate in a “winter of global discontent”, in an adaptation of the first sentence of Richard III, by William Shakespeare.
With the absence of the leaders of Russia and China, the so-called days of debate of the 77th General Assembly of the United Nations began with a message from António Guterres who began by saying that the “world is in great difficulties” after then give the positive example of the agreements signed two months ago in Istanbul between the authorities in Kiev and Moscow with the Turkish government and the United Nations, to guarantee the release of Ukrainian cereals from their ports, as well as Russian fertilizers.
“This ship is a symbol of what we can achieve when we work together,” said Guterres, speaking of the Brave Commander, the first ship to sail under the UN flag, having transported 23,000 tonnes of grain to Ethiopia and Yemen. “Each ship also carries one of the rarest commodities today: hope.”
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