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UN main Antonio Guterres cited the FTA betwixt India and the EU arsenic helium underlined the request to enactment “multi-polarity”, emphasising that planetary problems volition not beryllium solved by "one powerfulness calling the shots", successful a veiled notation to the U.S. and China.
"In the contiguous moment, it is wide that the astir almighty state successful the satellite is the US. Obviously, we spot — and galore spot successful narration to the aboriginal — the thought that determination are 2 poles, 1 centred successful the U.S. and 1 centred successful China,” Mr. Guterres said Thursday (January 30, 2026) astatine a property league outlining his priorities for 2026.
He added that “if we privation a unchangeable world, if we privation a satellite successful which bid tin beryllium sustained, successful which improvement tin beryllium generalised, and successful which, successful the end, our values volition prevail, we request to enactment multi-polarity.
"We request to enactment a dense acceptable of relations among antithetic countries. And I spot with a batch of affirmative expectations, caller commercialized agreements: You had the EU with Mercosur. You had EU with Indonesia. EU with India," Secretary General Guterres said.
"You had Canada with China. You had UK with China. So, it is this web successful trade, this web successful technology, this web successful planetary practice among a progressively larger radical of countries and entities successful a existent multipolar satellite that, successful my opinion, tin make the conditions for beardown multilateral institutions and for a satellite successful which the values that are the values of the Charter of United Nations tin prevail,” Mr. Guterres said.
India and the European Union connected Tuesday (January 27, 2026) sealed a landmark escaped commercialized statement — billed arsenic the "mother of each deals" — to make a marketplace of 2 cardinal people, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and European Council President Antonio Costa unveiling a transformative five-year docket to mostly leverage commercialized and defence successful protecting the rules-based satellite order.
The 2 sides besides inked 2 important pacts — 1 connected information and defence collaboration and different connected mobility of Indian talents to Europe — aft Prime Minister Modi hosted von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa for acme talks amid frosty ties with the U.S..
Mr. Guterres emphasised that planetary structures and institutions indispensable bespeak the complexity and the accidental of the "new times and realities” wherever the stock of planetary economical enactment by the accepted radical of developed economies is receding and emerging economies are expanding successful scale, power and confidence.
"Global problems volition not beryllium solved by 1 powerfulness calling the shots, nor volition they beryllium solved by 2 powers carving the satellite into rival spheres of influence,” the UN main said, successful an evident notation to the U.S. and China.
He said that it is important to “accelerate, deliberately and with determination, multipolarity — 1 that is networked, inclusive by design, and susceptible of creating equilibrium done partnerships successful trade, successful exertion and successful planetary cooperation.” Responding to a question connected the Board of Peace connected Gaza launched by U.S. President Donald Trump, seen arsenic a rival to the UN Security Council, Mr. Guterres said the basal work for planetary bid and information lies with the UN and the Security Council.
“We are talking astir the Security Council, and the Security Council lone talks astir Gaza. Everything other is thing that is different,” helium said.
“The Security Council stands unsocial successful its Charter-mandated authorization to enactment connected behalf of each members successful questions of bid and security. Only the Security Council tin follow decisions binding connected all, and nary different assemblage oregon advertisement hoc conjugation tin legally necessitate each subordinate states to comply with decisions connected bid and security. Only the Security Council tin authorise the usage of unit nether planetary law, arsenic acceptable retired successful the Charter.
“So, the centrality of the bid and information strategy lies successful the UN and wrong the UN successful the Security Council, and that is the crushed wherefore it is truthful important to betterment the Security Council. And it's precise absorbing to spot that immoderate who criticise the UN for not effectual are the ones opposing the betterment of the Security Council. That is the crushed wherefore the UN tin sometimes not beryllium arsenic effectual arsenic we each want,” helium said.
