By Erol Avdovic
The writer is Senior Diplomatic Correspondent of WebPublicaPress Online Magazine. This article first appeared on WebPublicaPress with the headline '2018 Very Challenging Year for Antonio Guterres.' It is being reproduced with slight modifications.
UNITED NATIONS (IDN-INPS) – When the new Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres took office one year ago, on January 1, he appealed for 2017 to be a year for peace. But just on the eve of the New Year 2018 he confessed – the world has gone in reverse: “Unfortunately – in fundamental ways.”
“I think the Secretary General will be the first one to tell you that the world today is in a mess,” his spokesman Stephane Dujarric told Webpublicapress.