UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The President of the United Nations Common Meeting (UNGA), Ambassador Dennis Francis, Friday warned that the worldwide neighborhood is dropping floor on peace, exactly when wanted.
Addressing a joint briefing of the Presidents of the Common Meeting and Financial and Social Council (ECOSOC), the Trinidad and Tobago diplomat stated the primary few months of the 78th session of the United Nations Common Meeting (UNGA) haven’t been with out challenges, and it was important to ponder on viable options collectively.
“We’re, expensive colleagues, dropping floor on peace exactly once we want it most.
Nowhere are the implications of that loss extra evident than in our pursuit of the Sustainable Growth Objectives (SDG),” he stated, noting, “Because it stands, we’re dangerously off target on our targets for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Growth”.
Francis stated that the Secretary-Common’s report on “Our Widespread Agenda” and its suggestions are meant to assist kickstart this shift or, as Antonio Guterres stated, “to turbocharge the SDGs.
“I used to be additionally happy and inspired to see the 2023 SDG Summit ship a pioneering political declaration through the Excessive-Degree Week in September, supporting expedited motion.
These are optimistic steps. However the Summit of the Future, in September, would be the actual check of our resolve.”
Francis stated it is going to be the second for world leaders to scale commitments and reinvigorate multilateralism to raised ship on no matter it takes to deal with the worldwide neighborhood’s challenges.
“We should not miss this chance. On the coronary heart of the Summit of the Future is an understanding that its outcomes should emanate from an inclusive and multi-stakeholder course of, with the visceral involvement of the younger folks.”
He stated throughout continents, comparable to Africa, a demographic dividend should be harnessed by means of investing within the youth.
“The subsequent generations actually want higher instruments and property to stay a significant life and have interaction within the sustainable improvement of their nations and societies – particularly entry to high quality schooling, expertise, and innovation to shut the digital divide.
“With the newly established UN Youth Workplace, we’ve got the mandatory momentum to interact younger folks in all features of the Group’s work.”
The Trinidad and Tobago Everlasting Consultant to the UN stated the Summit’s final result will advance discussions on sustainable improvement and financing for improvement, peace and safety, science and expertise, digital cooperation, and world governance, all for our youth and future generations.
He stated capitalizing on its potential, nevertheless, requires political will and management to make sure this course of is sufficiently formidable in action-oriented language.
“Now just isn’t the time to carry again, however to spark motion and take an unprecedented big leap ahead – to the shared future all of us need.”
He stated in help of this effort and to additional drum up help and facilitate momentum, he’ll convene an inaugural Sustainability Week from 15 – 19 April on the United Nations.
“It should embody high-level occasions masking debt sustainability, tourism, transport, vitality, and infrastructure connectivity. I hope this Week will assist provoke widespread help to allow the Common Meeting to make significant progress on these and associated areas.”
Francis stated whereas the Summit of the Future and Sustainability Week will form the rest of the 78th session, a number of different occasions will drive motion, lots of which can be delivered in coordination with ECOSOC.
He stated these will embody a assessment of ECOSOC and the Excessive-level Political Discussion board that may discover avenues for improved coordination between UN organs in addition to the one-day thematic occasion on the El Niño phenomenon on 30 April, which can generate action-oriented suggestions to deal with El Nino’s socioeconomic and environmental impacts.
Francis stated that subsequent Week’s 62nd session of the Fee on Social Growth is a wonderful alternative to construct upon the outcomes of the 2023 SDG Summit and generate momentum in direction of the Summit of the Future.
However he stated underpinning all these occasions and moments should be a renewed dedication to depart nobody behind and empower all folks, notably girls and women, and that he was trying ahead to working with ECOSOC on and collaborating on this yr’s Fee on the Standing of Girls.
Francis stated he was additionally trying ahead to internet hosting a gathering to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the World Convention on Indigenous Peoples on 17 April.
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