Serbia's UN secgen candidate speaks at IPI in NYC
Serbia's candidate for UN secretary-general Vuk Jeremic gave a speech at the International Peace Institute (IPI) in New York.
Wednesday, 18.05.2016.
14:12
Serbia's UN secgen candidate speaks at IPI in NYC
At the beginning of his speech, Jeremic said he believed that there was a need to rejuvenate the organization and that the job of the next secretary-general was to lead in that common effort to make sure that the United Nations remained the primary forum for member-states to coalesce around a common purpose for achieving global progress for humanity in the 21st century.Jeremic, who is currently president of the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD), a public policy think tank based in Belgrade, said that to that end, he had put forward a platform containing 53 concrete commitments.
The platform is divided up in five chapters, its commitments referring to five different topics - sustainable development, climate change, conflict prevention and peace operations, human rights and humanitarian relief and revitalization of the organization itself, Jeremic said.
He said the job of the next UN secretary-general would be to spearhead global efforts to ensure improving the situation with respect to all the five topics, and concluded his speech by saying that he had three overarching convictions.
"First, that ensuring more robust and inclusive multilateralism is the strongest safety net against the global perils that we face in our times. Second, that the United Nations should serve as the centerpiece of global governance in the 21st century, and third, that the existing resources need to be used more efficiently and effectively so that the global public goods can be successfully delivered to the member states and international community at large," he said.
The presentation was followed by a long question and answer session, during which Jeremic touched on numerous topics, such as thwarting nuclear proliferation, problems of delivery of humanitarian aid and the refugee crisis.
The event has attracted much attention from the general and expert public, including from a large number of activists, intellectuals, UN and international law experts and media representatives.
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