Global family 'dysfunctional', UN chief Guterres warns
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday that the world was facing the risks of conflict as divisions between nations widen, in a warning ahead of a G20 leaders summit.
«If we are indeed one global family — we today resemble a rather dysfunctional one», Guterres told reporters in New Delhi.
«Divisions are growing, tensions are flaring up, and trust is eroding — which together raise the spectre of fragmentation, and ultimately, confrontation.»
The Group of 20 major economies currently consists of 19 countries and the European Union, making up about 85 percent of global GDP and two-thirds of the world population.
But deep disagreements on Russia's war in Ukraine and how to help emerging nations tackle climate change are expected to hamper agreements during the two-day meeting in New Delhi.
«This fracturing would be deeply concerning in the best of times, but in our times, it spells catastrophe», Guterres added.
«Our world is in a difficult moment of transition. The future is multipolar, but our multilateral institutions reflect a bygone age.
»The global financial architecture is outdated, dysfunctional, and unfair.
