Addressing the closing session of the Summit following the adoption of the landmark Pact for the Future on Sunday, Philémon Yang, President of the 79th session of the Basic Meeting, expressed hope that the concepts exchanged would encourage additional initiatives at nationwide, regional and the worldwide ranges.
“As we shut the Summit of the Future, I urge all Member States to proceed to push for decisive motion and to create significant progress,” he stated.
He reminded delegates to not lose sight of ongoing international challenges like poverty, starvation, and the struggling of these caught in conflicts, violence, and deprivation.
“We must not ever lose sight of these future generations to whom we owe our greatest efforts to create a world that uplifts and empowers all of humanity, leaving nobody behind,” he added.
‘Continuum of efforts’
Mr. Yang applauded the Pact for the Future and its annexes the World Digital Compact and the Declaration on Future Generations, which have been adopted by consensus on the Summit’s opening on Sunday.
“Collectively, they define commitments to speed up progress throughout the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and usher in a future that’s extra peaceable, simply and resilient,” he stated.
He emphasised that the Summit marked a big step in “our continuum of efforts to ship sooner – and smarter” on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Growth, the Addis Ababa Motion Agenda, and the Paris Agreement on local weather change.
“It should propel our collective potential to ship properly into the long run,” he added.
Interactive dialogues
In the course of the two-day Summit, a sequence of interactive dialogues that includes authorities leaders, high UN officers and civil society representatives have been held alongside plenary periods. These discussions additional explored the commitments outlined within the Pact.
Matters included updating antiquated intergovernmental organizations, comparable to main multilateral growth banks and the UN itself, reforming the Security Council, maximising the potential of synthetic intelligence (AI) and different digital applied sciences whereas mitigating their dangers, and, above all, revitalising the worldwide efforts to eradicate poverty and inequality.
The interconnected challenges dealing with growing nations have been poignantly highlighted by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu, who remarked, “the fact is that we are going to both drown in debt or be drowned by the ocean.”
This emphasised the urgent want for international cooperation on ocean preservation, in addition to to decrease debt burdens.
