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As the United Nations turns 80, Secretary-General António Guterres is pushing the most ambitious reform plan in decades — cutting budgets, merging agencies, and streamlining mandates to rescue an overstretched system. His UN80 Initiative aims to make the UN “fit for today’s challenges,” but Member States — led by the United States — will ultimately decide whether this reset saves multilateralism or dismantles it.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres addresses Member States at the launch of the UN@80 Mandate Implementation Review. Behind the...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres sounded a blunt alarm before the General Assembly, warning that the UN system is drowning in mandates it cannot fully deliver. In a sweeping address on the UN@80 Initiative, he proposed digital tools, shorter resolutions, and strategic reviews—while declaring that fragmented mandates and funding threaten to erode the very credibility of multilateralism.