United Nation Forming Global Unity With a Summit For the Future

UN Under Secretary-General for Policy Guy Ryder said that “The idea” of the Summit of the Future “is to render the United Nations a multilateral system more effective in the fulfillment of its mandate, to make it more participatory, more networked, this in the face of the very clear global challenges that we face.”Briefing the press today (11 Sep) on the programme and objectives of the UN’s Summit of the Future, Ryder said, “The summit will be adopting 3 outcome documents: A Pact for the Future to which will be annexed 2 other documents, a global digital compact and a declaration on future generations.”The Summit of the Future (22-23 Sep) will produce an inter-governmentally negotiated, action-oriented Pact for the Future with chapters on Sustainable development and financing for development; International peace and security; Science, technology and innovation and digital cooperation; Youth and future generations; and transforming global governance.The Summit of the Future Action Days (20-21 Sep.) will focus on multistakeholder partnerships and action paving a way towards the next chapter of multilateralism that is more inclusive and networked.Ryder said, “Part of the objective of this summit is to complete and to improve our business around the 2030 agenda. This is an accelerator for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.”He added, “Secondly, we have a section on peace and security - designed in accordance with proposals presented by the Secretary General, under the title of ‘A new agenda for peace’ - to address the whole spectrum, the whole continuum of peace.”He said, “The objective of the global digital compact is to make technology work for humanity equitably. We are aiming at closing digital divides, expanding inclusion in the digital economy, creating an inclusive, open, safe and secure digital space, working on equitable data governance and also, and this has perhaps attracted more attention anything else, creating the systems of governance of artificial intelligence that will benefit humanity.”He continued, “A declaration on future generations is intended to codify what is happening in many of our member states, the need to ensure that decisions we take today take into full account the needs and interests of future generations.”He concluded, “And the last chapter, and it captures a lot of different issues, is around the transformation of global governance. This is a very wide-ranging area of the pact. It addresses Security Council reform, and we have the potential to take important steps forward on Security Council reform. It addresses the revitalization of the General Assembly and ECOSOC. Critically, it contains extensive language of the current state of negotiations on reform of the international financial architecture.”Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/policy-and-rights--3339563/support.