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first: 2023-04-24
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“Furthermore, we should enhance the convening power of the United Nations in tackling our multifaceted problems, including climate threats, gender inequality in all its forms and the work of involving women and young people in peace processes, areas that are all germane to strengthening the responsiveness of the multilateral system. In conclusion, Ghana believes that the tools available in the Charter remain indispensable to addressing the existing and emerging challenges of our time. What we have to do is to strategically harness and effectively deploy those tools, including Chapter VI, on the peaceful settlement of disputes. Ultimately, we need all Member States, including Council members, to demonstrate greater political will if we are to make meaningful progress in the defence of the Charter of the United Nations.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“That is important because when global crises occur, such as the financial and food crises that we are currently enduring, we know that down the road there may be greater manifestations of sociopolitical instability, diminished capacities for conflict management and further conflicts. Lastly, we believe that the Secretary-General’s report Our Common Agenda (A/75/982), including its New Agenda for Peace, provides us with a forward- looking vision for reinvigorated, inclusive and effective multilateralism to tackle contemporary global challenges. Those initiatives can lay the groundwork for effective multilateralism if they prioritize investment in interventions aimed at addressing existing and emerging risks, including those associated with nuclear weapons and the disproportionate threat to the countries of the Global South.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“Fourthly, the prevailing global challenges are so interconnected and multidimensional that we need to enhance collaboration and joint consultation among our various institutions and promote coherence if we are to avoid negative consequences from global policies. In our view that demands that we consult with institutions and processes outside the United Nations system, such as the Bretton Woods institutions, but also, as appropriate, with relevant civil-society organizations and responsible private-sector actors, in order to adequately address the pressing needs of people around the globe, especially in the developing world.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“We must therefore enhance the implementation of Chapter VIII of the Charter, especially with regard to regional prevention. The United Nations has its strengths, but when it is unable to act, we must embrace the strengths of regional actors. For instance, we cannot attempt any legitimate resolution of the terrorism crisis on the African continent without collaboration between the institutions of the African Union and regional economic communities and initiatives such as the Economic Community of West African States and the Accra Initiative in the Sahel. It is also only fair that when those regional bodies stand up and offer to act, their burden should be shared with the principal body bearing that primary duty.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“In that context, it is also important to make earnest and genuine efforts to address the structural flaws in the multilateral system as part of the ongoing reform initiatives within the United Nations system, including the revitalization of the General Assembly and reform of the Security Council. As an African Member State, we have stated our positions and justified our arguments. Those who support a strengthened multilateral system have a responsibility to reciprocate and to work constructively and urgently in good faith to address, with us, the historical injustice done to the African continent, which is also one of the weaknesses in the multilateral structure Thirdly, the multilateral system should be turbocharged by working to effectively implement our goals together with regional arrangements that share similar objectives.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“Secondly, a candid recognition of the realities of our time should spur us all to embrace deliberate diplomatic action to build mutual trust consistent with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. As my compatriot Kofi Annan once said, our futures, prosperity and security are wrapped together more than ever before. No country, however wealthy or powerful, can stand on its own any longer. That reality should compel us to build bridges, not burn them, and to lay solid foundations for dialogue and consensus, including in discussing countries’ strategic intentions. That will be critical if we are to avoid misjudgments and unhealthy competition, especially among the major military Powers.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“In our view, that should be devoid of politicization or any form of selectivity in its application. We cannot overemphasize the importance of ensuring that Member States embrace a principled approach to the application of the Charter’s provisions, underpinned by a shared, good-faith understanding and interpretation. We must also prioritize the desires of all peoples of the world if we are to achieve a smooth transition to a fair and equitable global world order. The cynicism that some countries display in twisting those principles or bending them to their will may bring them short-term tactical advantages, but history shows that such gains are ephemeral.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“Ghana therefore welcomes the focus of today’s debate, which provides us with an opportunity to deliberate on ways in which we can defend the United Nations Charter and promote it with a view to establishing an effective multilateral system. In considering how we can enhance an effective rules-based multilateral system through the defence of the United Nations Charter, Ghana would like to share five main points. First, while it is important to reaffirm our respective commitments to the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, it is equally pertinent to take practical steps to enhance our responsiveness to the Charter’s demands. In that regard, we urge for prioritizing a more inclusive and multi-stakeholder approach that enables all actors to adhere to the norms and values of the Charter.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“In the face of an easy willingness to reject or undermine our shared normative values and the principles of collaboration and collective action, we risk relapsing into a neo-Hobbesian state of nature. It is not too late to seek a way out of the increasingly confrontational politics, zero-sum games and egoistic, chaotic and brutish tendencies of recent years. It is in the interests of States, whether small or mighty, to safeguard the multilateral system, since the agreed international rules and institutions allow for all voices to be heard and provide the ability to influence the international order in less costly and more sustainable ways.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“Adherence to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, including the sovereign equality of States and the prohibition of the use of force, has been a pillar of global stability. Given the current disinformation, migration crises and food and energy insecurity, the world has not faced a more profound crisis since the Cold War. Structural impairments, including the debilitating impact of the veto system in the Security Council, the chronic lack of financing for development, the increase in geopolitical competition and the decline in international cooperation, have hobbled our efforts to renew global institutions and deepen multilateralism.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“Let me begin by congratulating you, Mr. President, and the delegation of Russia on Russia’s presidency of the Security Council for the month of April. We also welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the Secretary-General, His Excellency Mr. António Guterres, and we thank him for his insightful remarks. I would also like to note that we associate ourselves with the statement to be delivered by the representative of the Republic of Azerbaijan on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries. The multilateral system, which was fashioned out of the ashes of the Second World War, has no doubt been the cornerstone, with some exceptions, of relative peace, security and development across the world.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source