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Posted on January 20, 2026
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Add as preferred source on GoogleUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres cancels his Davos trip due to a bad cold, impacting his planned address at the World Economic Forum.
GENEVA, Jan 20 (Reuters) - The U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has cancelled his plans to attend the Davos meeting in Switzerland where he was due to deliver a special address, a U.N. spokesperson said on Tuesday.
"The Secretary-General has, unfortunately, had to cancel his participation at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos. It was scheduled for tomorrow, but he's got a bad cold," said U.N. spokesperson Rolando Gomez in response to a reporter's question.
(Reporting by Emma Farge, editing by Linda Pasquini)
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