Face of Nation : Describing the UN Security Council reform as “extraordinarily essential”, outgoing President of the United Nations Overall Meeting Maria Fernanda Espinosa has said that the UN is just not an organisation “written in stone” and its working solutions must be revitalised and improved to procure it a up to date, 21st century body.
“UN Security Council reform and revitalisation of the Overall Meeting are extraordinarily essential,” Ms Espinosa said in her final press convention on Monday as President of the 73rd Session of the Overall Meeting.
Ms Espinosa, only the fourth lady President of the Overall Meeting in its 73-three hundred and sixty five days outdated historic past, said reform needs to be the “be aware of the day on memoir of now we hang to imagine that the UN is an establishment that must be higher day by day to verbalize higher for the oldsters we help.”
The 74th session of the Overall Meeting opens Tuesday and Professor Tijjani Muhammad-Bande of Nigeria could be the president of the 193-member UN body for one three hundred and sixty five days.
“We’re not adore a written-in-stone organisation from 75 years within the past. We must be a up to date, 21st century group, whereas sticking to the founding solutions of the UN, but to discover that day by day we can carry out one thing that transforms and improves the manner we work and bring on all fronts – the Secretariat, UN companies and programs, the Overall Meeting, the Security Council” and all other organs of the UN,” she said.
Ms Espinosa wired that the field body has to always renew and reform itself. She added that there are plenty of pending disorders previous to the UN, critically the hang to continue working seriously on the revitalisation of the Overall Meeting, to streamline and toughen its working solutions, accountability mechanisms and transparency on the Meeting.
“It’s a ways so essential that we discover our act collectively and we verbalize higher on the work we carry out day by day,” she said.
Ms Espinosa also notorious that reform of the UN, “a if truth be told ambitious and profound reform”, beneath the leadership of the Secretary Overall is required. “As member states, now we hang to hang more possession of the reform route of,” she said.
She said she has requested Muhammad-Bande to continue focal point on the gender parity agenda and lengthen the work on addressing plastic air pollution worldwide as he takes fee as President of the 74th session of the Overall Meeting.
Addressing journalists in her final press convention because the Overall Meeting chief, Ms Espinosa presented some highlights of her presidency.
She maintained that her note of formally reporting inspire to Member States every three months, had been “very priceless, in particular for the smaller missions” that can not hide the total agenda items, “to allow them to consult with the experiences I fragment with them”.
Whereas noting that the 73rd session, has adopted 341 resolutions, with just a few more anticipated, she has been suggested right here is “the perfect number in plenty of years”.
“Customarily, my name to Member States has been: let’s read the resolutions now we hang adopted again and let’s verbalize and put in drive them the utilization of this norm-environment vitality of the Overall Meeting,” she said.
“We hang now delivered on all seven priorities”, she suggested correspondents, highlighting the realm campaign against plastic, the Women folks in Power high-stage events, and “our work in advancing the multilateral agenda”.
Ms Espinosa flagged that “now we hang managed collectively to transform the UN Headquarters in an let out from single-recount plastics”, owing to the give a boost to of Member States, the Secretary-Overall, UN workers, and journalists, asserting: “I feel very cheerful with what we finished”.
