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UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is encouraged by the agreement signed Thursday by Turkey, Russia and Iran to set up safe zones in Syria and de-escalate fighting, his spokesperson said. “It will be crucial to see this agreement actually improve the lives of Syrians,” UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a statement. Russia, Iran and Turkey signed the agreement to set up the four safe zones following talks in […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday sharpened his criticism of the US ban on travellers from seven Muslim nations, saying such “blind measures” are unlikely to be effective in fighting terrorism. Guterres said countries seeking to strengthen control of their borders cannot do so “based on any form of discrimination related to religion, ethnicity or nationality.” Such discrimination “triggers widespread anxiety and anger that may facilitate the propaganda of the […]
by Ben Simon / Fulya Ozerkan Agence France-Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) – A deal to end decades of division in Cyprus is close, UN chief Antonio Guterres said Thursday, as he led a crunch conference on solving one of the world’s longest-running political crises. Guterres was undertaking his first foreign trip as the United Nations’ secretary general seeking a breakthrough at a Geneva summit that involves rival Cypriot sides as well as Greece, Turkey and […]
UNITED NATION, United States (AFP) — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday condemned the Jerusalem truck-ramming attack on a group of Israeli soldiers but said it should not stand in the way of efforts to renew peace talks. Four people were killed and 17 wounded on Sunday when a Palestinian drove a truck into the group of soldiers visiting a tourist spot in Jerusalem. Guterres “condemns the terrorist attack by a Palestinian assailant,” said UN […]
UNITED NATION, United States (AFP) — The new United Nations chief, Antonio Guterres, warned Tuesday that the world body faces “very challenging times” and asked for support of reforms to make it better able to deal with them. Before beginning his first day of work at UN headquarters in New York, Guterres, who succeeded Ban Ki-moon as secretary-general on January 1, addressed staff and diplomats about the need for an overhaul of the international organization. […]
LISBON, Portugal (AFP) — The Syrian conflict “has become a cancer on a global scale”, incoming UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said, while hoping Washington and Moscow overcome their differences to help end the crisis. The war has caused “not only the suffering of the Syrian people” but also sparks “violent reactions which in some cases lead to terrorist acts”, the former Portuguese premier told Portugal’s SIC television channel in an interview broadcast Wednesday. […]
by Thomas Cabral LISBON, Portugal (AFP) — Former Portuguese prime minister Antonio Guterres, nominated Thursday to be the next UN secretary-general, is a self-described man of action who earned his stripes as the world body’s refugee chief, tirelessly pressing rich nations to do more. An engineer by training and fervent Catholic, Guterres, 67, fought unflaggingly for migrants’ rights over a decade as UN High Commissioner for Refugees from June 2005 to December 2015. He repeatedly […]
