On Sunday, the leaders of the states gathered at the UN office in fresh York City adopted, by consensus, a Pact for the Future, which provides for UN improvement and strengthening the global board. Russia and respective another countries opposed this.
"The Future Pact was adopted by associate States by consensus at the UN office in fresh York. The adoption will aid pave the way for greater global cooperation for our common future," the UN authoritative communication on the X platform says.
The secretary-general Antonio Guterres, who organized the “Happiness of the Future”, called it “a occasion that happens erstwhile a generation” to transform human past through a revival of global cooperation.
According to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the pact, the content of which was negotiated by representatives of Germany and Namibia, would service as "a compass whose needle indicates greater cooperation and partnership alternatively than greater conflict and fragmentation".
In the adopted version of the Pact, the leaders of the states committed to strengthen the global governance strategy and to adapt it to the requirements of a changing world, protecting the "needs and interests of present and future generations" facing a "sustainable crisis".
The paper points to 56 "actions" in different areas, ranging from commitment to multilateralism, compliance with the UN Charter, climate policy, "strengthening the position of girls and women", to the fight on "integrity of information" (read censorship) ending.
The pact involves reforming the UN safety Council and adapting the global financial strategy to the needs of the alleged Global South. It calls for increased efforts to advance eco-social transformation to combat climate change and to make a fresh agreement on data sharing, digitisation and the usage of advanced algorithmic systems (so-called artificial intelligence).
In particular, the Pact promises to accelerate efforts to accomplish the 2030 Sustainable improvement Goals ( 2030 Agenda), in peculiar to step up efforts to guarantee universal access to "sexual and reproductive health" (e.g. abortion, sterilisation, alleged sex change operations) and to "inclusive education".
All 193 UN countries attended the Future Summit. Russia distanced itself from the agreement to be adopted unanimously. Deputy Minister of abroad Affairs of Russia Sergey Wierszinin stressed that the states which opposed the provisions of the pact had no anticipation of further negotiations.
– If our amendment is not included in the text of the Pact, we will distance ourselves from consensus on this document “The Russian representative, who focused on the introduction of an amendment emphasizing “the rule of non-interference in the interior affairs of the states”, stated.
Representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo spoke against the Russian amendment. Their motion to reject Russia's proposal was accepted by a majority of 143 votes in the UN General Assembly, including many African and Mexican states, which was read as a failure of Russian diplomacy.
Russia's opposition was supported by Belarus, North Korea, Iran, Nicaragua and Syria.
The diplomats active in drafting the pact did not cover their disappointment with Russian procedures.
Although UN representatives considered the adoption of the pact to be "breakthrough", its critics pointed out that the pact was "not ambitious enough". Secretary-General Antonio Guterres estimated that the global agreement was "a step towards more effective, inclusive, network multilateralism". Guterres himself prepared 3 versions of his speech in case the agreement was not accepted, was adopted in a modified form or was accepted without amendments.
During the negotiation phase, the UN Secretary-General called on nations to show “visa” and “responsibility”, “maximum ambition” to strengthen global institutions that have difficulty responding effectively to today's threats.
During the text's negotiations, the fight against alleged global warming was an highly disputed issue, peculiarly the declaration on a definitive departure from fossil fuels.
With the Pact for the Future, its attachments were adopted: Global Digital Compact and Declaration on future generations that are not binding.
The UN chief demanded the end of the "wars tearing our planet apart" from the mediate East to Ukraine and Sudan, the improvement of the UN safety Council and the acceleration of the improvement of the global financial strategy and the fast departure from fossil fuels. He recommended listening to young people and involving them in making decisions.
In fact, no 1 is happy with this pact. His reception was in a tense atmosphere. Representatives of the States holding the proceedings silenced the microphones, which has seldom happened in the UN. The microphone was disabled, among others, to the president of Brazil Luiz Inacio Luli da Silvie, heir to Kuwait's throne to Sheikh Sabah Khalid Al Sabah and to Irish president Michael Higgins.
Guterres enjoyed his commitment to strengthen powers UN Secretary-General on consequence to crises from pandemic to armed conflicts. He besides added that "in the face of rising misogyny and reducing reproductive rights for women, governments have explicitly committed themselves to removing legal, social and economical barriers that prevent women and girls from achieving their possible in all sphere".
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned that if countries do not unite and implement more than 50 actions of the pact, “we will be judged not only by history... but besides by young people around the world.”
Source: abcnews.go.com, dw.com, france24.com
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