UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paints bleak picture of world, blasts Security Council members

By Mark Kenny
Updated September 25 2014 - 8:08am, first published 1:41am
'The world's 'fasten seat belt' light is illuminated' ... UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opens the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations Headquarters. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
'The world's 'fasten seat belt' light is illuminated' ... UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opens the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations Headquarters. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

New York: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has painted a grim picture of the world noting that 100 years on from the start of World War I, the "horizon of hope" is once again darkened by war, intolerance and widespread violence against women.

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