SECRETARY-GENERAL: ‘UN must reform to defend enlightenment values, secretary-general says’, Guardian, 10 May 2017

The United Nations must reform and adapt, in order to defend enlightenment values, the UNSG, António Guterres, has said. In his first speech in London since his appointment in January, Guterres said: 'Europe's greatest gift to the world was the values of enlightenment. Now they are being called into question and under threat. We are seeing the human rights agenda losing ground to the national sovereignty agendas. We see more and more irrational behaviours, including an aggressive nationalism.' 'UN must reform to defend enlightenment values, secretary-general says', Guardian, 10 May 2017