The world’s problems seized the spotlight Tuesday as the UN General Assembly opened on Tuesday with dire assessments of a planet beset by escalating crises and conflicts that an aging international order seems increasingly ill-equipped to tackle.
After two years when many leaders weighed in by video because of the coronavirus pandemic, now presidents, premiers, monarchs and foreign ministers gathered almost entirely in person for diplomacy’s premier global event.
But the tone was far from celebratory. Instead, it was the blare of a tense and worried world.
“We are gridlocked in colossal global dysfunction,” Secretary-General António Guterres said, adding that “our world is in peril
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