Revitalizing the United Nations to “strengthen a multilateral rule-based world order” tops a list of priorities the General Assembly President told UN Member States on Tuesday.
Convinced that “revitalizing the UN and advancing multilateralism go hand-in-hand”, Assembly President Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces said that she was engaging with world leaders in New York and abroad, “to promote this objective”.
THE SECRETARY-GENERAL
REMARKS TO THE PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION
AMBASSADORIAL-LEVEL MEETING ON “LEADERSHIP, ACCOUNTABILITY AND CAPACITIES”
New York, 7 September 2018
[as delivered]
June 18, 2018 - UN Secretary-General António Guterres has placed conflict prevention at the top of his agenda. One of the key challenges he will face is that of making Resident Coordinators (RCs) in fragile and conflict-affected countries without peace operations more effective prevention actors.
GA/12019
24 MAY 2018
SEVENTY-SECOND SESSION, 90TH MEETING (AM)
Speakers Urge More Predictable Funding, Better Coordination with Parent Organs
The Security Council, acting in parallel with the General Assembly today, took note of a raft of proposals by Secretary‑General António Guterres on ways to accelerate the United Nations “Peacebuilding and sustaining peace” agenda, as well as the Assembly’s decision to track progress towards its implementation. (For more information, please see Press Release GA/12014.)
The General Assembly capped its high-level debate on peacebuilding and sustaining peace today with a consensus resolution welcoming the Secretary-General’s January 2018 report on those activities and deciding to further discuss his recommendations to address existing gaps.
Peacebuilding and sustaining peace requires a more coherent strategy across the United Nations system, as well a ‘quantum leap’ in funding activities that prevent the outbreak, escalation, continuation and recurrence of conflict, Secretary-General António Guterres said Wednesday.
The General Assembly continued its high‑level debate on peacebuilding and sustaining peace today with speakers underscoring the value of the Peacebuilding Fund, a people‑centred approach to human security and the need to tackle poverty and other causes of violence by way of the Sustainable Development Goals.
With the adoption of landmark resolutions on the concepts of peacebuilding and sustaining peace imminent, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres urged Member States to strengthen their focus on conflict prevention, address its root causes and embark on a “quantum leap” in funding those critical activities, in a briefing to the Security Council this afternoon.
GA/12011
24 APRIL 2018
SEVENTY-SECOND SESSION, 83RD & 84TH MEETINGS (AM & PM)
Assembly President Calls for Coherence, Partnerships across United Nations Pillars
