Mozambique: President recalls UN’s role in decolonisation – Watch

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Mozambique: President recalls UN’s role in decolonisation – Watch

4:15 CAT | 22 Sep 2020

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The president of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, has reiterated his country’s commitment to the United Nations, recalling the organisation’s important role in the decolonisation process and in the protection of millions of vulnerable people.

After being introduced by Mozambique’s permanent representative to the UN, Nyusi congratulated the organisation on the 75th anniversary of its creation, in a video message transmitted in the hall of the General Assembly at the organisation’s headquarters in New York on Monday.

“The United Nations family has grown” and taken steps towards the decolonisation of the world, and seen the end of the Cold War and the emergence of a multilateral world, the president said. “It was with the UN Charter that decolonisation became part of the international agenda, allowing the independence of African and Asian countries from the 1960s, including Mozambique.”

Mozambique’s armed struggle for national liberation began on 25 September 1964 and ended only with a ceasefire between local forces and those of Portugal, the imperial power, on 8 September 1974. Mozambique’s independence was proclaimed on 25 June 1975.

Nyusi, as the country’s current president, marked 45 years of cooperation between Mozambique and the UN by reaffirming the “commitment to the principles” of the international treaty known as the United Nations Charter.

According to Nyusi, one “challenge for the future” is the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN’s Agenda 2030 – goals that have been “incorporated” into the programme of Mozambique’s government from 2020 to 2024.

“As a sign of commitment” to this, he noted, Mozambique has already submitted a voluntary national report on the SDGs in July.

In his address, Nyusi said that Mozambique recognised the “unquestionable relevance” of the UN, even if “localised conflicts persist”, and called for “greater involvement of states” in UN affairs.

The UN is, he stressed, “the greatest protector of millions of vulnerable people around the world” and he praised all its staff and volunteers. He said that the organisation that is now celebrating its 75 anniversary helps ensure “the sustainability of our planet and the future of the generations” and “a world of peace and harmony, through multilateral consultations”.

Nyusi reiterated Mozambique’s national commitment to multilateralism on “issues of interest to global society” and “for a stable world and progress for all”.

The high-level week at the UN General Assembly began on Monday in New York, with a limited number of people present at the headquarters and – in what was an unprecedented departure for the 75-year-old organisation, with all speeches by heads of state and government to be made in the form of previously recorded video addresses.