UN Secretary-General António Guterres explains why peace in Ukraine is his top priority

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

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🗓️ 16 September 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The challenges facing the world today, from conflict in Ukraine to climate catastrophes across the globe, cannot be solved by one country alone. The need for multilateral solutions between nations, even between warring nations, has never been greater. And yet, as diplomats, ministers and heads of state converge on the United Nations in New York this week for the 78th annual UN General Assembly, the UN Secretary-General fears that we are entering a time of increased global fragmentation. "We really need stronger and reformed multilateral institutions to be able to coordinate on what is becoming a multipolar world," Secretary-General António Guterres tells Ian Bremmer in an exclusive interview for the GZERO World podcast. "I would remind you that Europe, before the First World War, was multipolar. But because there were no multilateral governance institutions at the European level, the result was the First World War." Whether it’s the costly war in Ukraine, lurching towards its third year, or the ongoing climate crisis that, in Guterres’ words is quote “boiling” the planet, the Secretary-General and Ian discuss a wide array of pressing global issues. And don’t forget our brave new world of artificial intelligence, which will need a new global regulatory framework of its own.

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0:00.0	The single most important thing is to have peace in Ukraine.
0:04.0	The war in Ukraine is a complicating factor of everything else.
0:08.0	The first thing that we need is to stop that war.
0:13.3	Hello and welcome to the GZero World Podcast.
0:16.5	This is where you'll find extended versions of my interviews on public television.
0:20.5	I'm Ian Bremmer and today my sit-down interview with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
0:26.6	I met up with him in New York at the UN headquarters, fancy that, just ahead of this year's General Assembly.
0:33.7	We talked about the ongoing war in Ukraine, the climate crisis that he says is creating, and I quote, a boiling planet, an exacerbating hunger and poverty, not to mention a brave new world of artificial intelligence technology without government guardrails. Is it all as bad as it sounds? You are about to find out. Here's my conversation with UN Secretary General, Antonio Gettig.
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1:32.3	Secretary General, Antonio Gutierrez, thanks so much for joining us again. No most pleasure to be here again.
1:33.3	So I want to start with the news that I'm sure is keeping you very busy today.
1:38.3	Massive humanitarian crisis, floods in Libya, thousands and thousands of people we already know dead.
1:45.3	What is the United Nations prepared to do to help?
1:49.6	Well, we immediately mobilized all the resources we had in both countries.
1:54.4	We have a central emergency response fund and immobilized $10 million to support the operation in Libya.
2:02.2	We are discussing with the Moroccan authorities how best we can support them. But of course
2:06.4	Morocco has another capacity that Libya lacks and we'll be doing everything to mobilize
2:11.9	international community to support these two countries in this very, very tragic situation.
2:17.2	I mean, especially, I would say,
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