The United Nations General Secretary, Antonio Guterres, has launched the UN80 initiative in New York today in order to improve the functioning of the UN institutional system in order to manage the current global challenges more effectively.
“Our world faces challenges at every front” said In a press conference in which the important function of the United Nations as a platform for promoting peace, sustainable development and human rights.
The UN official emphasized the current critical role of the United Nations and referred to the urgent challenges that today’s UN80 faces. The UN80 initiative aims to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the international body.
“It is important that the institutional system of the United Nations – which is both complex and indispensable – is checked and regularly checked whether it is able to effectively meet its missions,” added Guterres.
He spoke of the changing mechanisms of the world and pointed out that the organization “regularly checks that it remains in a rapidly changing world for the purpose”.
“We cannot cope with the challenges of the 21st century with 20th century systems,” he continued.
The United Nations started the UN80 initiative on the 80th anniversary of the international organization.
The initiative corresponds to the efforts of the United Nations to “ensure effective and optimal, interconnected and integrative multilateralism that we need to relieve human suffering and to build a better life and a better future for everyone”.
Guterres appointed a task force in which all UN companies were involved and said their goal was to carry out a comprehensive assessment of the United Nations functioning in three key areas.
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This quickly includes the identification of efficiency gains and improvements in working methods, the thorough examination of the implementation of all mandates obtained from the Member States as well as structural changes with simultaneous diversion programs within the UN system.
Leadership for this ambitious reform efforts Will fall to the Secretary General for Politics, who will coordinate representatives from the secretariat and various UN companies in order to develop implementable suggestions for Member States.
The multilateral organization confronts “everywhere and for a long time”, admitted Gutrees, emphasizing that the multilateral organization has been with a liquidity crisis for at least seven years.
Since the organization has marked eight decades since it was founded, the UN leadership now seems to believe the perfect moment to ensure that it remains relevant and effective for the coming generations.
