2023-05-09 13:21:45
The UN Secretary General, António Guterres, warned this Tuesday in Yuste, after receiving the Carlos V Award, that In today’s world peace cannot be “taken for granted”, as evidenced by conflicts such as the one in Ukraine, and has urged to change the bullets for “diplomatic arsenals”.
“Peace is elusive and weakened” while “violence is rampant in too many corners of the planet”, lamented Guterres, stressing that “peace should never be underestimated or taken for granted”, but rather it is necessary to “work for and for her, every day, without rest”especially “in a world that is being torn apart”, in which “divisions must be healed, escalations prevented, grievances heard”.
For it, “instead of bullets, we need diplomatic arsenals”, has claimed the UN Secretary General, who has appealed to “negotiation, mediation, conciliation, arbitration” to “peacefully resolve” the disagreements.
António Guterres spoke in this way in his speech this Tuesday after receiving the XV Carlos V European Award from King Felipe VI, in a ceremony held at the Monastery of San Jerónimo de Yuste on the occasion of Europe Day, and which has attended by the President of the Republic of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and the Portuguese Prime Minister, Antonio Costa.
In his speech, Guterres has been “sincerely excited” to receive this Carlos V European Award, something that he has done on behalf of “the entire United Nations Organization, and has recalled that in the Monastery of Yuste “one of the most powerful men, if not the most powerful, of his time” retired with humility”, Carlos V , who “beyond being emperor, was a man of contrasts”.
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