New UN Secretary-General Guterres Debut Calls for Peace
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Core Tip: Guterres proposes that everyone joins him in the New Year's Day together to set a New Year's resolution: Put peace first and strive to make 2017 a year to overcome differences.
The new UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres officially took office on January 1 and began to exercise the authority of the UN Secretary-General. This ninth secretary-general in the history of the United Nations issued the new year¡¯s address to the world for the first time on New Year¡¯s Day and called for 2017 to be a year of peace.
The new UN Secretary-General Guterres said at the beginning of the new year in 2017 that he still has millions of people in various parts of the world who are in deep conflict and suffering in the end of the war. This problem made him feel heavy.
Guterres said: "In these wars, there are no winners and everyone loses. Thousands of billions of dollars are used to undermine society and economy, fueling the vicious cycle of distrust and fear that has continued for generations. The entire region has become turbulent and the new threat of global terrorism affects everyone..."
Sisi proposes that everyone joins him in the New Year's Day together to set a New Year's resolution: Put peace first and strive to make 2017 a year to overcome differences. He said that everything the human family is committed to achieve, including dignity and hope, progress and prosperity, depends on peace. But peace depends on all people working together to achieve it. He called on people to make a commitment to peace and build 2017 as a year of peace.
Guterres served as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees from June 2005 to December 2015 and experienced conflicts in Syria, Iraq, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and Yemen. Prior to this, he had more than 20 years of experience in government and public affairs management. From 1995 to 2002, Guterres used to be the Prime Minister of Portugal. After the ¡°public interview¡± organized by the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council¡¯s rounds of intentional voting, Guterres was formally appointed as the UN¡¯s ninth Secretary General by the General Assembly on October 13 last year for a term beginning on January 1 of this year. To December 31, 2021.
Guterres was born in Lisbon, Portugal, on April 30, 1949. He graduated from the Institute of Advanced Technology of Lisbon Institute of Technology in Portugal in 1971 with an engineering degree. He is fluent in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.

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