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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Michelle Nichols

At UN, Russia's Lavrov warns world at 'dangerous threshold'

Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya speaks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on "Effective multilateralism through the defence of the principles of the Charter of the United Nations," at the U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., April 24, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday that the risk of conflict between global powers was at an "historic high" and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the world was at a threshold "possibly even more dangerous" than during the Cold War.

Guterres, seated next to Lavrov in the U.N. Security Council, criticized Russia's invasion of Ukraine for causing massive suffering and devastation in the country and fueling global economic dislocation caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

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