UN Sec General Guterres Introduces Global 'Common Agenda'

UN Secretary General Delivers His New “Common Agenda”

Joseph A. Klein

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres introduced his “Common Agenda” plan to the General Assembly and the media on September 10th to address what he called “a pivotal moment” for humanity.

Guterres painted a picture of a world facing a perfect storm of simultaneous crises, including the pandemic, climate change, nuclear weapons proliferation, lethal autonomous weapons, cyberwarfare, rising inequality, and discrimination and violence against women and girls.

The Secretary General declared that “We don’t need new multilateral bureaucracies.” He said he wants “multilateralism with teeth” – presumably, globalist governance bodies that would claim binding legal authority over yet to be defined “global public goods.”

Guterres said that he would “ask an Advisory Board led by eminent former heads of state and government to identify what are the global public goods and potentially other areas of common interest where governance improvements are most needed, where the systems we have now are not sufficiently effective and to propose options for how this could be achieved.”  

Guterres also wants to “align the global financial system with global priorities, from sustainable development and climate action to addressing inequality.”

To accomplish his utopian vision of a brave new world, Guterres is calling for a series of summit meetings, including a global “Summit of the Future” that would consider a a “New Agenda for Peace,”  and a “World Social Summit.”

“These summits would be a corrective to historic injustices and imbalances in the global economy, from trade to the development of technology,” the Secretary General told reporters.  

President Biden, with his America Last policies, will no doubt go along to get along.

Guterres, of course, wants a revitalized UN, which he calls UN 2.0, to play a central role in implementing his Common Agenda. But his suggestions for a UN 2.0 do not include any concrete measures to deal with the problems of corruption, lack of transparency and accountability, double standards, and sexual discrimination and abuse that continue to fester within the UN system itself.

Guterres displayed his socialist roots while describing his Common Agenda plan. His recommendations on handling the economy amount to little more than relying on top-down centralized planning at a global level.

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