Let Us Make 2021 a Year of Healing! (Image by UN news, United Nations)
The following is the text of 2021 United Nations New Year’s message delivered by Secretary-General António Guterres.
2020 has been a year of trials, tragedies and tears.
COVID-19 upended our lives and plunged the world into suffering and grief.
So many loved ones have been lost – and the pandemic rages on, creating new waves of sickness and death.
Poverty, inequality and hunger are rising. Jobs are disappearing and debts are mounting. Children are struggling.
Violence in the home is increasing, and insecurity is everywhere.
But a New Year lies ahead. And with it, we see rays of hope: