Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls for global unity, foremost to fight the pandemic, and sharply criticised populism and nationalism for failing to contain the virus and for often making things worse.
Kept apart by a devastating pandemic and dispersed across the globe, world leaders convened electronically Tuesday for an unprecedented high-level meeting, where the U.N. chief exhorted them to unite and tackle the era’s towering problems- the coronavirus , the “economic calamity” it unleashed and the risk of a new Cold War between the United States and China.
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