{"id":17431,"date":"2021-09-22T18:08:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T18:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/?p=17431"},"modified":"2021-09-22T18:08:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T18:08:13","slug":"secretary-general-message-for-the-international-day-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/?p=17431","title":{"rendered":"Secretary-General Message for the International Day of Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16786\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16786\" style=\"width: 195px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16786\" src=\"http:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Antonio-Guterres-1-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Antonio-Guterres-1-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Antonio-Guterres-1.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SG Anthony Guetaras<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This year\u2019s International Day of Peace comes at a crisis point for humanity.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>COVID-19 has turned our world upside-down.<\/div>\n<div>Conflicts are spinning out of control.<\/div>\n<div>The climate emergency is worsening.<\/div>\n<div>Inequality and poverty are deepening.<\/div>\n<div>And mistrust and division are driving people apart at a time when solidarity and collaboration are needed more than ever.<\/div>\n<div>As a human family, we face a stark choice \u2014<\/div>\n<div>Peace or perpetual peril.<\/div>\n<div>We must choose peace.<\/div>\n<div>That is why I call for a 24-hour ceasefire today.<\/div>\n<div>And by working in solidarity for a lasting, sustainable peace every day, we can tackle the issues facing us.<\/div>\n<div>We need peace to urgently deliver lifesaving vaccines and treatment for COVID-19.<\/div>\n<div>We need peace to recover from the pandemic and re-build shattered systems and shattered lives.<\/div>\n<div>We need peace to level the playing field and reduce inequalities.<\/div>\n<div>We need peace to renew trust in one another \u2014 and faith in facts and science.<\/div>\n<div>And we need to make peace with nature \u2014 to heal our planet, build a green economy, and achieve our net-zero targets.<\/div>\n<div>Peace is not a na\u00efve dream.<\/div>\n<div>It\u2019s a light in the darkness.<\/div>\n<div>Guiding us to the only pathway to a better future for humanity.<\/div>\n<div>Let\u2019s walk the pathway of peace as if our lives depended on it.<\/div>\n<div>Because they do.<\/div>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s International Day of Peace comes at a crisis point for humanity. COVID-19 has turned our world upside-down. Conflicts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17432,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17431\/revisions\/17432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}