AP - UN chief warns that Mideast 'chaos' threatens global peace
The AP reports: "Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Friday that the Middle East
is in such 'chaos' that it has become a threat to international peace
and security — and Syria 'represents the most serious threat.'
The U.N. chief told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council
that the highly volatile situation in the region risks 'escalation,
fragmentation and division as far as the eye can see, with profound
regional and global ramifications.' 'The Cold War is back — with a vengeance but with a difference,'
Gutteres warned.
And he said the safeguards and mechanisms that managed the risk of
escalation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the past 'no longer
seem to be present.'"
Comment: I think it's always noteworthy when the Secretary General of the United Nations, the world body created from the ashes of world war to maintain peace, warns that peace is under threat.
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