Hiroshima, 20 May 2023 (TDI): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is visiting Japan to attend the G7 Summit. The Secretary-General urged the G7 countries to deliver financial justice for the developing countries so that they can invest in their people.
The UN Secretary-General also said that realizing the Group of Seven theme of a word without nuclear weapons is a possibility. Realizing a world without nuclear weapons is a theme of the G7 meeting.
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The G7 countries include three nuclear countries the United States, the United Kingdom, and France while the remaining are protected under nuclear umbrellas.
In 2022 the Secretary-General attended the ceremony in Hiroshima to mark the atomic bombing’s anniversary and urged the nuclear armed countries to adopt the policy of “no first use”.
He also said that North Korean missile tests are “unacceptable” and that the country’s possession of nuclear weapons is “totally intolerable”.
He stressed the need of G7 and China to cooperate with each other and warned against the division of the world between a Chinese-led bloc and a US-led alliance.
Commenting on a question regarding the 60-Day extension of the UN-brokered Black Sea Grain Deal the UN chief said that UN would do everything to minimize the impact of the war in Ukraine and also said that he feels that “peace is not in the immediate horizon” in Ukraine’s conflict with Russia.
