{"id":72304,"date":"2021-04-14T19:58:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T23:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=72304"},"modified":"2021-04-14T19:58:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T23:58:51","slug":"un-secretary-general-so-far-we-have-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2021\/04\/14\/un-secretary-general-so-far-we-have-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Secretary-General: \u2018So Far, We Have Failed\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>UN Secretary-General Maintains, \u2018So Far, We Have Failed\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">April 13, 2021 (EIRNS)\u2014United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres yesterday delivered a grim review of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the related hunger, poverty, and unemployment crises, telling a gathering of the UN Economic and Social Council\u2019s Forum on Financing for Development that \u201cno element of our multilateral response has gone as it should.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Speaking as the current head of the post-war international institution par excellence, the United Nations, Guterres\u2019s speech almost reads like a funeral oration for the demise of the entire Old Paradigm. This is what a systemic breakdown looks like, from the inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Guterres said that during the last year more than 3 million have died from the virus. Around 120 million have fallen into extreme poverty, and the equivalent of 255 million full-time jobs have been lost. \u201cThe crisis is far from over,\u201d he stated. The crisis is \u201cputting multilateralism to the test, and so far, we have failed.\u201d He went on to say that a \u201cparadigm shift\u201d was needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;The President of the UN General Assembly Volkan Bozk\u0131r echoed Guterres\u2019s grim report, stating that the COVID-19 pandemic has \u201cprecipitated the single largest economic contraction in 90 years, devastating lives and livelihoods in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Guterres ripped into the suicidal immorality of hoarding vaccines, in which a mere 10 countries globally account for around 75% of COVID-19 vaccinations given. He said that the estimated cost of this is more than $9 trillion\u2014without explaining where that figure came from. \u201cTo end the pandemic for good, we need equitable access to vaccines for everyone, everywhere.\u201d &nbsp;Guterres then focused on the debt crisis, saying that \u201cwe need to go beyond debt relief,\u201d and strengthen the \u201cinternational debt architecture to end the deadly cycles of debt waves, global debt crises and lost decades.\u201d But that is as close as he came to actually proposing a solution to the crisis. The best he could muster was to protest that \u201cthere has been a $5 trillion surge in the wealth of the world\u2019s richest in the past year\u201d of the pandemic, and that governments should therefore \u201cconsider a solidarity or wealth tax on those who have profited during the pandemic, to reduce extreme inequalities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN Secretary-General Maintains, \u2018So Far, We Have Failed\u2019 April 13, 2021 (EIRNS)\u2014United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres yesterday delivered a grim review of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the related hunger, poverty, and unemployment crises, telling a gathering of the UN Economic and Social Council\u2019s Forum on Financing for Development that \u201cno element [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":72305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[643,642,505,33],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-72304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-finance","category-updates","category-updates-war","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72315,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72304\/revisions\/72315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}