According to the United Nations**, UN Secretary-General António Guterres delivered a New Year's message calling for global solidarity to make 2024 a year of "building trust and rekindling hope".
UN Secretary-General António Guterres delivers his 2024 New Year's message. **United Nations*** screenshot.
"2023 is a year of suffering, violence and climate chaos, with humanity in pain and our planet at stake," Guterres acknowledged. 2023 is the hottest year on record;People are crushed by increasing poverty and hunger;The fighting increased and intensified. ”
Guterres spoke of the lack of trust, noting that "it is not beneficial to point fingers or threaten at gunpoint." ”
"Humanity is strongest only when it is united," he stressed. 2024 must be a year of building trust and rekindling hope, and humanity must transcend its differences, unite in the search for common solutions. ”
For climate action, for economic opportunity, for a global financial system that delivers more equitable services to all, we must work together to combat discrimination and hatred that poison relations between nations and communities, and we must ensure that new technologies such as artificial intelligence become a force for good. Guterres said.
Finally, Guterres pledged that the United Nations will continue to unite the world to promote peace, sustainable development and human rights. "Let us resolve to make 2024 a year of building trust and be hopeful for all we can achieve together," he appealed. ”