The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, considered Tuesday that the Covid-19 pandemic is the worst global crisis since the end of the Second World War 75 years ago, expressing his concern that its repercussions will fuel the world's conflicts and wars.
In an interview with a number of media outlets, Guterres said that the new Corona virus that emerged in China at the end of last year and an impossible global epidemic was "the worst global crisis since the founding of the United Nations" in 1945.
He explained that the reason for this is that this pandemic "brings together two elements: the first is that it is a disease that poses a threat to everyone in the world, and the second is that its economic impact will lead to a recession that we may have never seen before."
"The combination of these two elements and the risk of deep disturbances, increased violence and escalating conflicts are matters that make us believe that this is indeed the most difficult crisis that we face since the Second World War," he added.
The Secretary-General stressed that this crisis requires solidarity from all mankind and set aside differences. "We need a stronger and more effective response that can only be achieved if we all stand together, forget about political games and our awareness that the whole of humanity is at stake," he said.
For Guterres, the international community is still far from achieving the solidarity required because all the measures that have been taken to date to deal with the epidemic have been taken by developed countries to protect their citizens and economies.
"We are far from having a global package to help developing countries eradicate the disease and at the same time address its dire consequences for its population, for people who have lost their jobs, for small businesses facing the risk of extinction, and for those who live outside the formal economy and who no longer have any An opportunity to stay. "
"We are slowly moving in the right direction, but we need to get the pace done and we need to do more if we want to defeat the virus and if we want to support people in need," he added.
The Secretary-General stressed that the world today "needs innovative financial tools" that enable developing countries to respond to this crisis.