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UN photo / President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi of Mozambique addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-first session.
Addressing the United Nations General Assembly yesterday, President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi of Mozambique told the Assembly that realisation of Agenda 2030 required a collective commitment to strengthening multilateral institutions from all concerned.
“For this purpose we continue to defend the important need for: reforming the United Nations, in general, and the Security Council in particular; adjusting the architecture of international financial institutions within the Addis Ababa Action Agenda; and furthering cooperation between the United Nations and Regional Economic Organisations, particularly for the prevention and resolution of conflicts,” he said.
Many African states propose that the 15-member Council, where the five permanent members have veto powers, be expanded to include permanent members representing their continent.
“We are also looking forward to materialising the desired reforms of the United Nations in order to make this organisation more democratic and more representative and at the service of all nations and peoples of the world,” Mr. Nyusi said.
New era of development
The President of Mozambique, noted the early progress made in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, and reminded the international community that a new era of development had begun. Noting the transformative power of the 2030 Agenda, he stated that Governments needed to create conditions conducive to the eradication of poverty and the achievement of sustainable development.
It was crucial to address the challenges of overall alignment, financing, monitoring and evaluation and inclusiveness, he said. Another challenge in implementation was the effective recognition of the nexus between peace and development and the indivisibility of those two pillars. Only when those pillars were integrated would States be able to build peaceful, just and inclusive societies. To achieve that, the United Nations system had to be repositioned.
He said that Mozambique had adopted a 2015–2019 Five Year Programme to fully implement sustainable development. A National Reference Group which consisted of all stakeholders was established to mainstream, monitor and report on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. The aim was to make the implementation more inclusive, consistent and transparent for the whole country.
You may watch president Nyusi’s full speech at the United Nations 71st General Assembly here:
To learn more on the Addis Ababa Action Agenda you may go here:
http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/AAAA_Outcome.pdf
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