UN Chief says solutions are needed
Secretary-General of the United Nation, António Guterres admitted during the opening of the 79th General Assembly on Tuesday that the world is in trouble, but he insisted that member states can provide the solutions.
“We need solutions across the board. Solutions to bring the Sustainable Development Goals back to life, and end poverty and inequality. Solutions to spur economic progress and job-creation for all — especially women and young people. Solutions to bridge the political divides and end the conflicts that are causing so much death and suffering. Solutions to end the climate catastrophe that is killing our one and only home,” he said, while addressing president of the 79th session of the General Assembly, Philemon Yang of Cameroon.
Guterres said solutions were also needed to summon the financing that developing countries need to invest in the future of their people and to give all countries a voice in global institutions of finance, peace and security. Solutions are also necessary to ensure that groundbreaking technologies like artificial intelligence does not pose a barrier to human progress and equality, but instead provides help.
The UN chief said that last year was very “tumultuous” with poverty, inequality and injustice as well as conflict and violence persisting. He also recalled that last year was “the hottest” year on record and emphasized that many tasks lie ahead for member states in the 79th session.
Yang took over from Dennis Francis who was the president of the 78th General Assembly. He said his main priority will be sustainable economic growth and peace and security.
“I will urge the Assembly to intensify its determination, to prioritize the resolution of conflicts, including the intractable ones in the Gaza Strip, Haiti and Ukraine,” he said, adding that “human rights will remain at the core of our General Assembly”
The 79th UN General Assembly, which annually brings world leaders together in New York, will officially open on September 22 with the “Summit of the Future.” World leaders will deliver their speeches beginning on September 24. Participation is expected from 190 countries.
The summit aims to reaffirm commitments to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to the United Nations Charter, while enhancing co-operation and laying the foundation for a reinvigorated multilateral system. The summit will result in a Pact for the Future, which aims to bolster global co-operation.
Pastor of the Tarrant Baptist Church, Apostle Jeffrey Shuttleworth had urged Christians to pray as world leaders prepared for the Assembly, which he noted would be a major step in the march towards one-world control.
In the inaugural lecture to mark the Freedom Come Rain Newspaper fourth anniversary on August 1, Apostle Shuttleworth noted the significance of this particular Assembly during his presentation on the “Signs of the End Times.
“UN member states are likely to vote to radically alter the UN and this is very important because for the first time, if this vote goes through, the UN will have power [teeth] to act and they are looking at reshaping the UN into what is called UN 2.0. The UN would now be in a position they say to influence the way nation states make decisions regarding the future of the planet, so the stage as you can see is being set for a one world order,” he said.
The UN has been increasingly rubber-stamping and promoting unrighteous ideas and positions through varying resolutions and declarations. The General Assembly has also encouraged and facilitated interfaith worship, which is an act prohibited by God. The intention is to create a one world faith.
Bishop David J. Malloy of Rockford, Illinois, quoted Pope Benedict XVI in praying for peace on September 9 as dignitaries gathered for the UN annual prayer service on the eve of the 79th General Assembly. The yearly service is offered by the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations and was attended by approximately 250 diplomats, U.N. staff and members of the community.
“Recognition and respect for human dignity is reverence for human nature, for the very humanity that we share. This is an important commitment because we live in a time when the very opposite, not humanization but dehumanization is widespread,” Bishop Malloy said.