UN faces biggest crisis in its history due to political impotence of Secretary General Guterres
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has barely been heard from. In the eyes of more than 200 former senior UN officials, he has failed to personally lead a mediation process in Ukraine, and thus jeopardized the 'continued existence' of the organization.
EDMONTON—At 2:30 p.m. on Oct. 24, 1962, the eighth day of the Cuban Missile Crisis, acting secretary-general U Thant sent an urgent message to Soviet president Nikita Khrushchev and U.S. president John F. Kennedy, appealing for a moratorium to halt further action. Even though he had not yet been c...
