UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres addresses the United Nations Sustainable Development Forum, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. At the United Nations, “multilateralism” is always the goal. His answer — unsurprising, since he hammers it home every year — is a world that is “multipolar” and multilateral, the collaborative foundations upon which the United Nations was founded. Being multilateral means shared responsibility, shared ideas, shared paths forward. But the elusive goal — a shared vision, but multilateral — is always the United Nations' move elusive quarry.

Source: The Nation September 20, 2023 23:06 UTC