Today, Monday, the United Nations celebrates its 75th anniversary after the Second World War, through an online event "due to the current global health crisis."
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is expected to deliver his speech from the General Assembly hall in New York, while world leaders - including US President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel - will deliver their speeches in pre-recorded videos.
"It's very unfortunate," said the expert on UN affairs, Richard Joan. "It will be a bleak celebration of the birthday of the United Nations."
On Tuesday, the general discussions of the annual meetings of the United Nations will begin, with leaders also sending video speeches about the Corona pandemic.
After expressing his desire to be the only leader of the country to deliver his speech in personal attendance of the General Assembly, it was reported that US President Donald Trump would not go to the United Nations headquarters in New York.
And if Corona prevents world leaders from meeting directly in New York, the words that they will deliver from a distance will focus on confronting the virus.
Earlier, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, warned that the Corona virus "is out of control, and there is no magic medicine to eliminate it."
"We are on the cusp of a million people who have lost their lives due to the spread of the epidemic around the world," Guterres said.
The first threat
The Secretary-General of the United Nations added that "the virus is the first security threat in our world today. That is why I called last March for a global ceasefire, and my call resonated with member states, civil society and armed groups around the world."
Guterres noted that "from Afghanistan to Sudan, we see promising new steps towards peace, and in Syria, Libya, Ukraine and other places."
He said, "Many people place their hopes on a vaccine for Corona, but let's be clear, there is no magic medicine to eradicate the epidemic."
He explained that "a vaccine alone cannot solve this crisis, certainly not in the short term, especially since any effective vaccine should be available and accessible to everyone around the world."
The Secretary-General of the United Nations warned of the repercussions of "the spread of misinformation about the effective vaccine, the stirring of conspiracy theories about it, and lack of confidence in the efficacy of any vaccine that we can reach."
He called for "doing everything possible to stop deadly misinformation and do more to address the global fragility exposed by the virus."