New York-Sana
Today, the United Nations General Assembly renewed its commitment to promoting peace, preventing conflict, and with the provisions of international law, improving the performance of the United Nations, and ensuring the availability of sustainable financing, especially since the Coronavirus pandemic served as a wake-up call to remind the need to improve countries' preparations for various crises.
The United Nations website stated that the 193 member states, during their meeting on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations, unanimously adopted a declaration in this regard that also affirms building bridges of trust, working to improve digital cooperation, improving the performance of the United Nations, ensuring the availability of sustainable financing and strengthening partnerships.
In their declaration, the member states also renewed their commitment to pluralism and to work in the next ten years to achieve sustainable development that has no alternative and to guarantee human rights and fundamental freedoms in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international treaties and instruments in this regard.
On how to advance the joint plan that was adopted in the declaration by the member states, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, stressed that the plan is an important and comprehensive process, and said: “We need a greater and more effective multilateralism that is based on foresight, is ambitious and influential.”
The Secretary-General called for the necessity of adherence to national sovereignty as one of the pillars of the United Nations Charter, pointing out that it must go hand in hand with strengthening international cooperation based on common values and common responsibilities in pursuit of progress for all.