World Leaders Summoned as UN Secretary-General Predicts Imminent Great Fracture - Must Read!

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has issued a warning about an impending "Great Fracture" in the world. He stated that the current global governance structures are inadequate for meeting the needs of a transforming world. Presenting his views before world leaders at the United Nations Assembly Hall, Guterres stressed the necessity for comprehensive transformations in multilateral institutions. These changes include revising the influential Security Council, which lies at the core of the United Nations, as well as reimagining global financial systems.

"The absence of reform does not equate to maintaining the current state. Rather, it leads to additional disintegration," he explained. "It is either reform or a complete breakdown."

Guterres recognized the emergence of new global powers such as India and China, as well as the increasing negotiating influence of regional alliances. He characterized this trend towards global multipolarity as an avenue for achieving fairness and equilibrium in international relations, thereby presenting fresh prospects."

In a multipolar order, ensuring peace will require the establishment of new and reinforced multilateral institutions, according to him. Guterres pointed out that the United Nations Security Council and Bretton Woods agreement still uphold the unequal power dynamics that existed in 1945, when several countries in this Assembly Hall were still under colonial rule.

Over 50 countries within the United Nations have never held a membership in the Security Council. The Council consists of five permanent members, namely the US, UK, France, China, and Russia, along with 10 rotating members. Out of the permanent five members, only US President Joe Biden decided to participate in the UN General Assembly this year.

The secretary-general's criticism of the world's division was reiterated in his speech. Despite the ongoing effects of Covid-19 in some parts of the world, Guterres expressed his disappointment in the ethical standards of the world. In the following year, the secretary-general raised concerns about the international community being paralyzed by global dysfunction, but he acknowledged a glimmer of hope with the Black Sea Grain Initiative facilitating the delivery of Ukrainian grain to countries in need.

Unfortunately, the grain agreement has since collapsed, and with Russia's ongoing conflict in Ukraine, the possibility of joint action to prevent various humanitarian disasters seems even further out of reach.

"There is currently an unprecedented level of division among superpowers, comparable to the era after the Second World War," noted Guterres during an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Monday. Guterres expressed that his tool to bridge this division is simply having a voice.

"The secretary-general of the United Nations has no power and theres no money. What we have is a voice. And that voice can be loud. And I have the obligation to make it be loud."