UN chief says world owes Gaza, Sudan and Lebanon victims a mea culpa

NEW YORK: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday told Arab News that the international community — though not he personally — owes a “mea culpa” to the people of Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Sudan, whose suffering he said the world has too often chosen to ignore. At his final press conference before the opening of the 81st UN General Assembly, Arab News asked Guterres what he would say to people in Gaza, Lebanon, Sudan and elsewhere who had pinned their hopes on the UN and whose