This article comes from Figaro Magazine
In Israel, the name António Guterres now rhymes with enemy.
Certainly, the Jewish State owes its birth to the vote on the partition plan for Palestine by the United Nations (UN) in November 1947. But, seventy-six years later, this international agora no longer has any place at all. good press in the country and its secretary general receives his share of hostility, not to say hatred.
António Guterres, 75, former Portuguese Prime Minister and Secretary General of the United Nations since 2017, is going through difficult times.
Last October, the Israeli ambassador to the UN requested his resignation from the Security Council while his head of diplomacy abruptly canceled a meeting with him.
It all started with the speech given by António Guterres to the Council on October 23.
“I unequivocally condemned the horrific and unprecedented acts of terror perpetrated
by Hamas on October 7 in Israel
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” he declared
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