유엔 구테흐스號 출범…美 트럼프 차기정권 공조가 관건
The United Nations welcomed its new chief Antonio Guterres on the first day of the New Year.
Despite starting his tenure facing a multitude of global crises the former Portugese prime minister opened with a message of peace.
Lee Ji-won has more from Ban Ki-moon's successor.
Antonio Guterres took office as the ninth UN secretary-general on Sunday.
Before starting work on his first day, he gave a new year's address highlighting his determination to make 2017 a year for peace.
"On this New Year's Day, I ask all of you to join me in making one shared New Year's resolution: Let us resolve to put peace first. Let us make 2017 a year in which we all -- citizens, governments, leaders -- strive to overcome our differences."
He said that the question of how to help the millions of people caught in seemingly endless wars weighs heavily on his heart.
He said no one wins these wars,... but that everyone loses.
He urged people to engage in dialogue and have compassion, to strive to bring about ceasefires on the battlefield and compromise in negotiations and let peace "be our goal and our guide."
Guterres begins his five-year term facing conflicts in multiple countries including Syria and Yemen, the rise of global terrorism and the threat of climate change.
He is also facing the unpredictable U.S. President-elect Donald Trump,... who has openly criticized the organization on Twitter as a "club for people to get together, talk and have a good time" and said that "things will be different after Jan. 20th."
The U.S. is not only one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council,... it also represents 22-percent of the UN's regular budget and 25-percent of its peacekeeping budget.
Lee Ji-won, Arirang News.
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