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Last week was headlines when you see here on out there are off the talk to Al Jazeera how many nukes is too many new america has in many ways driven the Arms Rate parties are much more like the british parties. There are fewer regulation to own a tiger than their our own a dog. How can this be happening . Your weekly take on us politics and, and thats the bottom line. Me. The in 1945. The atrocities and consequences of World War 2. Forced the leaders of the day to find a new diplomatic channel to negotiate international peace, security, and cooperation. The Initiative Lead to what we know today as the united nations and replace the existing league of nations. Today the u. N. Has 193 members states and its lead by its chief administrative officer, the Un Secretary general. Since its creation, theyre benign, Un Secretary general, working alongside government to secure Peace And Stability around the world. From was to genocide, invasions migration, natural disasters, and health crises. The un has tried to find solutions and provide assistance to tens of millions. The role has been famously described as the most impossible job on earth could. How does the current, zachary general antonio could terrace see his position in Todays World . Head of the Un 76 general Assembly Terrace discusses the recent development. Enough, got stomped, climate change. And of course, the cobra 19 pandemic. Is the world going in the wrong direction . The Un Secretary general antonio could terrace talks to out there. Ah, Un Secretary general antonio terrace. Thank you for talking to Al Jazeera. Youve almost completed your 1st 5 year term, the Secretary General, and congratulations in june. You were elected for another 5 years. The 1st Un Secretary general, that all which and trick the lee famously described it as the most impossible job on earth. So how, how hard is it being Un Secretary general . Well, on one hand, its a difficult job. On the other hand is a fascinating job. We will not be able to solve all the problems of human kind and the power to the 2nd 10 generally is much smaller than what people think. I mean, member states are in command of the false. The Secretary General is the chief executive officer, and the only thing i have is the possibility of good offices. But i mean, whenever we are able to do something that ends up conflicts, or whenever we are able to do something that the increase you meditate, you need to a population in distress. Or whenever we are able to do something to make sure that the governments do in relation to climate change, what they are supposed to do. I mean, this is extremely rewarding. Whatever we can do sometimes for one person. When you cannot save the world, but whatever you can do to help the life of individual people. And i was like, commissioner for refugees for 10 years. Its a fascinating job. One thing that clearly has been taking up a lot of your time in recent weeks is the taliban takeover in afghanistan. Tell me about that. What worries you most about what could come next . But there are many worries. The situation is unpredictable and what i understood was that some people think the when can solve the problems ive got is that now they say all the one is the organization that says enough time. So you are going to solve all the problems with ivers for 20 years. Were not able to do so. Even if they had hundreds of thousands of soldiers or premiums of different currencies to spend. No, it is clear that our leverage is very limited. But we are totally committed to support the african people. And so thats the reason i think we were the 1st, the international Guys Ation that sent a high Level Delegation to couple. And thats engaged directly with the taliban to allow for the military and a to be effectively distributed to the african people. Now, what im afraid is that all these efforts might say what im afraid is because the situation is unpredictable that the, that will, it will be a disaster if there will be an inclusive government enough that is done. It will be a disaster if the economy would collapse. It would be a disaster if the rights of women and girls would be that magically violated to be a disaster. If terrace organizations could operate again from a gun is done and i think we need to do everything possible to reach the opposite to push for the taliban to understand the importance of an inclusive government. That takes into account the diversity of the different groups that do everything possible for the public to understand that it is essential to respect a number of basic rights of women and girls. I mean, nobody wants of things possible that kind of stuff becomes an order of the country. But there are basic rights direct of women to work. The right goes to study that its very important that they understand that essential to do everything. We can to persuade them that the fight against salaries be something in which they must be united with the whole of the international community. So knowing that we dont know what the future will bring, i know one sink. If we dont engage, well get nothing if we engage. And thats the same time. If we prove out added value by providing humanitarian aid to a people that is in a domestic situation with millions and millions on the verge of dying because of hunger. If we dont do these, then it is clear that things cannot move in the right direction. So its all duty to do everything possible to support the good people and to help create the conditions for those concerns that everybody has about terrorism, about human rights, about the V T to materialize. Youve mentioned the prospect of a total collapse of the economy. Weve already seen the Batman Banking System and ive got a stone is barely functioning. What would a collapse look like . And what would it mean in terms of refugees in the region . And even as far as a field in europe, it would be a total disaster. It would be lots of people dying, and i believe the massive Out Flow into the neighboring countries with audible consequences for the stability of those countries. So i think its very important to avoid that collapse. Ive been saying that you, many teddy and these essential. But at the same time, its necessary, and of course, there are ways to do so even in respect for international law, its essential to inject some cash to allow the african economy to breeds. And to avoid the kind of collapse that will have devastating consequences. When we go back 20 years to 911, you were the leader of the nato country. You were the prime minister of portugal. Since then youve been the high commissioner for refugees visiting. Ive kinda saw many times, few people have the same insight as you and what happened in afghanistan. Tell us in your view, what went wrong. I think everything went wrong. Such the idea that the african people can be ruled from outside. Im in the british strides and say the russians tried and failed the soviets at the time. Now the americans tried and said, the african people is the people who is very proud and they have lots, lots of problems among themselves. But they have even more problems with the idea that that can be dominated from the outside. On the other hand, i think that there was too much military action and not enough support to building institutions. I mean, unfortunately, the thought, the but the, but ive gotten some leaders. What also the violin we had to elections with contested results. Probably the model of election that was adopted, the gun is done. That was a unitary system, was not the most adequate for the country that you saw the centralized. So the, the truces that there was a huge this functionality in the government. And we have seen it in the relations of the president with an international community. Looked at it without any capacity to really allow things to, to improve. And so all these sort of juliet is accumulated. And in the end we had the what we heads. And we had it in a, in a very chaotic way that nobody was what caustic. I think it was impossible to, to, to think that anatomy of hundreds and thousands of people with the best equipment that was, it would disappear in 7 days. Some here in the u. S, saying nato in the u. S. Shouldnt have been doing Nation Building. You seem to be saying they should actually have been doing more Nation Building and less bombing people and fighting Nation Building is probably the wrong concepts. I think what is important is to create the conditions for a country to find its own way. The problem of Nation Building is that sometimes we try to impose a model copied from other parts of the world in which the cultures, the social relations, the ethnic diversity are completely different. So we need to act with the people of a country and extending the people of the country, understanding the culture, understanding their traditions, understanding that history and obviously helping them to adapt to the modern times. But not trying to project on them. What we are in 2001 the un envoy then like over him, he played a central role in bringing different political figures together and forming a government. This time it seems to you and is focusing on the humanitarian side. Yet the taliban did say at one point they wanted an inclusive government to come up with a cabinet. The only includes members of the taliban should the us not be playing a similar role now trying to nudge the taliban in that direction was a different situation. It was a situation in which that was the creation of conditions for after the defeat of the taliban, the creation of conditions to bring together the different groups that work together in the construction of the different novel situations, completely different insoluble one. And obviously the Tale Button do not accept that, that is an entity that will be now brokering an agreement. What is important is to express to them clearly our point of view that in the interests of afghanistan and in that interest is very important. That the different ethnic groups that are presented in the government of the country. This is an Eagles Cation that they need to do by themselves. And at the same time that is important, wherever Women Presence in the structures of power of the Country Un officials have been engaging. As you say, with the taliban, you say its important to engage. And yet when you look at the cabinet members of the taliban government, 33 cabinet members, many of them are on the un sanctions list, including the prime minister, both the deputy prime ministers and the foreign minister. Isnt that . Doesnt that make things difficult for you . First of all, the meditating principles are clear. You many ted inaction is based on him, but she ality no, tell it the and the penson needs based approach. And any money to an action, you need to speak with everybody. You even have to speak with terrorist organizations when necessary to provide the sisters to people. Do you believe the taliban is still a terrorist organization . As it has been judged in the past . I think that probably by now want to rule the country and we dont know whats going to happen. As i said, the situation is unpredictable. But i think that, that hes at least a part of the leadership of the tale above that would like to have got his done as a country recognized by the international community and would be ready to pay a price for that. You say part of the leadership in your assessment, how united is the taliban right now . Well, we know that its the news that that are complex negotiations in the formation of the government. So it is clear that the group that was formed as it probably been, was formed is not exactly like a social democratic part. The northern europe. I mean, its a group, im sure, with divisions with different perspectives. People i fought in different areas of the country with different ethnic groups. So i meant it would be an illusion to sink that. We are dealing with a monolithic institution. I was in geneva or a few days ago and i was you launch your flash humanitarian appeal for afghanistan. And i heard you say about the african people, they want their lives and basic freedoms to be protected. They want what every member of the human family wants and deserves. But in that speech, and every time i heard you talks recently about afghanistan, theres one word you dont mention. Democracy has the international community now given up on the idea of democracy for us on the stone. I think what is essential at the present moment is to get in tea. That basic human rights, special for women and girls are respected. That is my main concern. On the other hands for the stability of the country, its important that the countrys inclusive to think that we will witness immediately a process of construction of a liberal democracy like exists the load. It was a sort of democracy. It wasnt perfect but finished a liberal democracy. I think it would be totally life death. We want the government to be inclusive and that was the government to accept for instance, freedom of expression that we want the government to respect the rights of women and girls. These up steps that are important in line of, of the mac, the mac, i think the view of the world. But we have no illusions that a typical liberal democracy will work immediately in ive got to start and thats the honest. There are many countries in the world where that doesnt happen. Well, let me talk about some of the countries around the world where democracy is potentially under threat. Weve seen coups in mali, myanmar, guinea. Weve seen the suspension of parliament into nicea the assassination of the prime minister in haiti. How worried are you about democracy in the world . Im very words. I think that natalie, democracy. Im worried with the fact that more and more we see poet taken by force and i see the visions is increasing within societies, Problems Ation of societies and the rest of truce when the same fact is described in totally different ways by different politicians and different groups within the Society Population since phobia racism, i think there is a number of serious threats that are happening to the in the developed world in traditional liberal democracies that are serious threats that need to be faced. In a matter of weeks, it will be the 1st anniversary of the clashes in Tea Grey and of the military intervention by ethiopia. In the early stages, i know you used your relationship with prime Minister Abbey ahmed to try and calm things down. He told you that there were no retrench troops in the country, and yet they were, they were executing people. They were raping people. He told you he was going to open up humanitarian access. That still hasnt happened to me. Are you disappointed in the pin prime minister . I am disappointed with your situation in general. It shall be and have, in my opinion, failed in their capacity, whether as the, the problems of that on diversity. And im very worried about the situation. Because we have been engaging most the government prime minister and the cpr. Lets Martin Griffin visited the leadership of the p l. F. And does he have, as you know, the when i made the appeal for his fire for free, you meditating excess, said to all it is a 30, tory and for the beginning of each of your lead dialogue, we received the letter from the leadership of the of the T P L f. I mean, showing that interest also incorporating with us. So that emma is that i think both sides are still convinced that can win the war. And im deeply convinced that there is no military solution. I dont think that it is possible to be fit the P L F in today, namely the because it is clear that they are very strongly integrated in the society and that they have a real fighting capacity. And i also think that there is no way. Busy that the grahams can rule it as to a certain extent they did in the past. So it is obvious, there is no military solution, and it is obvious that they need to together. We hope thats the human, its an excess would be the way to facilitate. And the truth is that we still do not see the will to stop the war and come to a serious dialogue for the solution. I hope this will happen sooner rather than later because the risks 40. Yup. Yup. Are huge. Enter a collapse of the job. You would be a disaster for the region and to be tragic for the 2 of you and people. Jeffrey feltman, the us special envoy. He actually said this dramatic quote that if you could make syria look like childs play, do you agree . Im afraid if, if there will be a collapse in your area with the complexity of the job in society. I think that image would probably be a real 1. 1 conflict which is not more hopeful this year is libya because you had the formation of a new national unity government. You had a roadmap towards elections, but you still have the foreign forces there. And you dont seem to have an agreement yet to hold those elections. In december, not, you know, weve got an agreement of what sort of elections are going to be president ial or parliamentary, or, or both, or you were at the Progress Youve seen this year could now unravel. Im worried about speech. Its good that the fighting did not resume its good, that i feel that there is a kind of equilibrium that doesnt allow easily for a full start of a, of the coffee because it was in the past. But the truth is that we are not making progress in the legal constitutional aspects along for the elections take place. I believe that we must make immediate progress, at least on making some of the mercenaries leaves. But our objective remains the same. Libya must be a sovereign independent country. There is no room in libya for foreign mercenaries of foreign troops. The warlord holly for hafta looks like he wants to be the president wants to run for president. He someone who clearly has blood on his hands. Hes been accused, or some of his forces have been accused of war crimes. Should someone like that be eligible for high office in libya . This is something the libyans need to decide. And this is one of the things the libyans are discussing at the present moment. And it is obvious for me that we should have a presence of libya, someone that will deserve the consensus of the libyan society. That would be, in my opinion, the best solution. Will that be possible . I hope it will. I think leave you need someone that unites the country instead of someone that divides the country. Lets move to cobra 19 and youre aware that some parts of the world, but getting back to normal. They think Kobe 19 is over. Do you agree . No coffee, 900 is not over. Covered 19 has been a terrible demonstration of the failure of human, sorry, that it. These was a terrible Ethics Text that the international community has failed. Ive been asking for months for a global vaccination plan. Ive been asking for months for an Emergency Task Force and the, the 20 that went all the countries that met the art in order to be able to double the production of x teams and to get into an equitable distribution of vaccines. This is not happening. We have seen vaccine, national isnt that vaccine diplomacy, but we are not seeing people coming together and finding a common solution and this is a tragedy. And unfortunately the coffee has not been defeated. The problem is we all know that the challenges we face cannot be solved by a country by country basis. We all agree that we need multilateral institutions to address the common challenges of the worlds. The problem is that po multilaterally mis notice, look at will, does organization, they cannot even get the information. They need her. They cannot even do an investigation of a situation our multilateral institutions have, as i said, notice. And sometimes when they have to use, they have not much will to bite as it is the case of the security goals course as one global crisis that is worse than coven 19. And that is the climate crisis. You have the Cop Meeting coming up in glasgow in just a matter of weeks time and youve been talking about mistrust taking place between the developed world and the developing world. Do you think that could derail any agreement . And how serious would that be for the world . It can, and it will be extremely serious and we must avoid it. We must establish trust. I think its important that developed countries understand that the need to do more in support of developing countries, namely fulfilling the commitments made in paris. But going beyond that, that international financial institutions, it will be much more active in support of developing countries that support needs to be concentrated, not only on reduction of emissions, but also on what we call the station. Which means building resilience of communities of infrastructure, helping up in countries resist to the impacts up already existing climate change. And thats where seen the vulnerability is everywhere. We are in new york, even here. We had some heavy rain and 45 people died in the region around new york. I mean, even the most important financial center in the world is vulnerable to climate change. So its tied to the developed countries to understand that they need to also invest in the patient in resilience, in changing infrastructure in creating new forms of organization of societies in the developing world that lex the resources to do so. And finally, its important also that the some emerging economies of the developing world. But thats up to date because of that, i mentioned big meters make an extra effort. Because, for instance, with the number of Coal Power plants that use Plan Today in the world. We would not only not reach 1. 00 degrees or would not normally be below 1. 00 degrees of increase the temperature in the other. The center would not be below 2 percent. We will be completely and the mining the periods agreement. So there must be an effort, an effort from develop and developing countries to bridge the gaps and trust that still exist and to understand that each one must do more. Finally, 2nd general, weve mentioned that your 2nd term starts soon and it ends in 2026. By then the u. N. Will have had a man in charge for over 80 years. How important is it that your successor is referred to as matter . Secretary general, i think its something that makes full sense and i have to say that ive done a lot in order to make sure that Gender Equality and Gender Parity is the i would say the symbol of his organization. We have now Gender Parity in the 180 leaders of the u. S. U. S. System. And then our coordinators around the world. I have pushed forward a very strong policy in Gender Equality. There is only one thing i cannot do is to be a woman. So i am a man, but Gender Parity and Gender Equality for me, an absolute priority because generally qualities met sort of power. And the method of power in wolves that is male dominated and with a culture that is male dominated. And it is essential to changes. Im telling you, could tara secor, generally united nations. 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