Here at the United Nations, the future may have to wait.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres had hoped to cap off 2023 with a summit of world leaders to “forge a new global consensus on what our future should look like, and how we can secure it.”
But a coalition of lower- and middle-income countries have thrown a wrench into proceedings, pressing to halt the event’s preparations until next year and contending the U.N. must focus this year on implementing its existing, and faltering, development goals, according to U.N. diplomats and internal U.N. documents reviewed by Devex.