UNITED NATIONS—They gathered at the United Nations surrounded by unsettling warnings of an escalating conflict that could engulf the Middle East and further shatter international relations that are based on “multilateralism”—nations working together and sharing power.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres puts his hand over his heart after speaking to the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ warning that multilateralism needs to be brought back “from the brink” added to the gloom, along with speech after speech decrying failures to tackle climate change and address growing inequalities between rich and poor nations, and warning of artificial intelligence with no guardrails and the potential of killer weapons with no human control.
One example: During the very hour on Friday when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the General Assembly that his country genuinely wants peace—a goal stressed by virtually every leader—Israeli warplanes were bombing areas around Beirut in a lethal barrage. “The world doesn’t stop for the general debate,” he told reporters Monday. “So we were focused very much on what member states said, but we continue to be very much focused on what is going on in the world outside of this building.”
Still, he said, the consensus on the Pact for the Future “shows that multilateralism is not dead and buried.” Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, head of Bangladesh’s interim government, said “time demands new attitudes, new values, new compacts, across communities and countries.”
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