Tag: António Guterres

Biden was probably the only leader on the first day of speeches who stated that the international system is working.

The U.S. has, belatedly, invested heavily in attempts to pursue a cease-fire and the release of hostages.

The U.S. has been unable to compete with China’s radical economic development programs.

The UN’s challenges are exemplified by competing, failed resolutions on the Middle East.

The seizing of Afghan assets will worsen the suffering of Afghan women and children.

The impulse to promote a cold war is the ultimate version of unilateralism, and shows dangerous and mistaken arrogance that the U.S. is almighty.

Serious human rights violation by India in Occupied Kashmir are on the radars of all representative international and regional bodies, including the United Nations, as well as all world leaders, including the United States.

If we miss this chance, the path back will have been made seriously harder.

The belief that lifting sanctions would do anything but empower the regime at the expense of the Iranian people is foolish and dangerous.

The continued imposition of sanctions by Britain, the U.S. and its allies is essentially irresponsible, particularly now when COVID-19 is killing people at a rate unseen in over a century.

[T]he Trump administration has nominated an especially unsuitable candidate: David Malpass. As the chief economist of Bear Stearns at the time of its collapse, Malpass did not see the 2008 financial crisis coming.