Antonio Guterres Archives - Defence Monitor

01 Sep

Guterres going to G20 summit with messages of global financial reform, fighting climate change

United Nations, Aug 31, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres announced on Thursday that he will be going to the G20 summit in New Delhi carrying the messages of global financial reform and fighting climate change as he takes a swing through four international summits ahead of next month's high-level UN meetings. G20 countries, as the world’s biggest economies, "need to look seriously into reform of global financial institutions, rules and frameworks, to adapt them to today’s realities and more effectively enable developing countries to access the resources they need to invest in the (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)", he said.…

01 Sep

UN chief cautions military coups only worsen crises

United Nations, Sep 1, Addressing the recent series of military coups predominantly in Africa, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has underscored the importance of establishing lasting democratic governance backed by the rule of law. Wednesday's military takeover in Gabon came on the heels of Niger last month, Burkina Faso in 2022, and Chad, Guinea, Sudan and Mali in the years prior to that. The Gabonese military takeover was announced not long after the electoral authorities declared that President Ali Bongo had secured another term, even though there were allegations of electoral irregularities, Xinhua news agency reported. During a media briefing at…

13 Jul

Delhi G20 Summit an opportunity to start reform of global financial system: Guterres

United Nations, July 13, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has denounced the international financial system as a relic of the colonial past and said that the G20 Summit in India offers an opportunity to start moving on reforming it. The debt crisis faced by 40 per cent of the developing countries is because of the “inequality built into our outdated global financial system, which reflects the colonial power dynamics of the era when it was created," Guterres said here on Wednesday. He referred to the recent international initiatives on dealing with the crisis and said, “The upcoming G20 Summit is an…

07 Jul

Lt Gen Subramanian appointed commander of UN peacekeeping in South Sudan

United Nations: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has appointed Lt Gen. Mohan Subramanian as the commander of UN peacekeeping in South Sudan, the largest troop deployment in UN missions, Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric announced Tuesday. Subramanian succeeds Lt Gen Shailesh Tinaikar, also of India, as the force commander of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), Dujarric said. The mission set up in 2011 has 17,982 personnel, of whom 13,254 are troops, the most in the 13 current UN peacekeeping operations.India has contributed 2,385 troops and 30 police personnel to UNMISS.Subramanian was the commandant of the Defence Services Staff College (DSSC) appointed…