Sometimes the best-laid plans and intentions don’t work out quite as
   expected. That’s the case with Guterres’ attempt to codify his
   blueprint for the organization that would map out its mission for the
   next 250 years and cement the Portuguese leader’s personal legacy.
   His proposed Summit of the Future has been kicked into the weeds,
   writes my colleague Colum Lynch. 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 that the United Nations must focus this
   year on implementing its existing (and faltering) development goals,
   according to U.N. diplomats and internal U.N. documents that Colum saw
   exclusively.
   The dispute constitutes a critical test for Guterres’ ability to
   overcome the kind of diplomatic paralysis that has thwarted previous
   U.N. leaders from modernizing a world body whose basic structures were
   forged at the close of World War II, when the greatest threats to
   humanity, including climate change, were largely unknown; social media
   and artificial intelligence were no more than intellectual constructs;
   and many of today’s governments didn’t even exist.
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