General Assembly President urges solidarity, hope, laying out 2022 agenda
Amid the resurgent COVID pandemic, the President of the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, stressed the importance of solidarity and fostering hope, as he outlined his priorities for the remainder of the 76th session.
Amid the resurgent COVID pandemic, the President of the UN General Assembly connected Wednesday, stressed the value of solidarity and fostering hope, arsenic helium outlined his priorities for the remainder of the 76th session.
Abdulla Shahid told Member States that “we indispensable cherish our communal humanity and defender against the drivers of conflict” if the satellite is to flooded challenges that see the pandemic, arsenic good arsenic atomic proliferation, terrorism, and planetary strife.
“I impulse the planetary assemblage to recommit to the principles of bid outlined successful the United Nations Charter, to enactment unneurotic successful the tone of amity to code the challenges ahead,” Mr. Shahid said astatine the commencement of the archetypal gathering of the caller year, successful the General Assembly Hall.
Cynicism, ‘a way to inaction’
Outlining the 5 priories of his self-styled ‘Presidency of Hope’, Mr. Shahid besides underscored the value of his uplifting cardinal theme, calling cynicism a “path to inaction” that would lull the planetary assemblage into complacency and a “false content that our actions bash not matter.”
He urged the planetary assemblage to recommit to vaccine equity arsenic the lone mode to retrieve from the pandemic, calling for faster accumulation and organisation of innoculations, and a removal of barriers to rollout.
The President, whose “new year’s resolution” run calling for vaccine equity has the enactment of immoderate 120 Member States, volition clasp a high-level lawsuit connected 25 February to galvanize momentum for cosmopolitan COVID vaccination.
Mr. Shahid noted that the communities astir adversely impacted by the pandemic often reside successful the slightest developed countries, landlocked processing countries, and tiny land processing states, which see the President’s location state of the Maldives.
Protecting nature
He called for economical strategies that align with planetary biology priorities and preservation of earthy resources, pointing to a high-level lawsuit connected sustainable retrieve from COVID done tourism, which is slated for May.
When speaking astir the needs of the planet, President Shahid warned that the dangers whitethorn not beryllium imminent oregon evident close present “but the way we are each connected is the same.”
“We person a work to act,” helium stressed, thing that Maldives is 1 of the low-lying SIDS faced with imminent extinction this period if sea-levels proceed to rise.
Tonga’s not alone
The President besides spoke astir Tonga, saying the volcanic detonation and tsunami that followed connected 15 January are an illustration of the devastation caused that SIDS are “often confronted with.”
He urged the planetary assemblage to travel unneurotic to widen each imaginable assistance to Tonga, portion besides offering thoughts, prayers and sympathies for each families impacted.
In his speech, President Shahid besides spoke astir his enactment connected sex equality and the value of upholding quality rights.
He besides lauded his Fellowship of HOPE (Harnessing Opportunities for Promoting Empowering of Youth Fellowship) and different items nether the revitalization of the United Nations agenda.
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