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UN to present system-reform report after high-level week; Secretary-General to mark UN at 80
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The UN issued a report on reforming how UN entities collaborate and said the Secretary-General will formally present the report to member states in October. The Secretariat also outlined UN at 80 commemorations and briefed on security arrangements and bilateral scheduling during the General Assembly high-level week.
Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, said the Secretariat issued a report aimed at strengthening how United Nations entities collaborate across the organization’s three pillars: peace and security, sustainable development, and human rights.
Dujarric said the report was issued ahead of the high-level week “to inform the deliberations between member states on the ways to strengthen the UN system,” and that “the secretary general will formally present the report to member states in October after the high level week.”
He noted an evening event at the General Assembly Hall to commemorate the UN at 80, calling it “a living legacy” and relaying the Secretary-General’s expected remarks that “the United Nations lives in every peacekeeper who stands between conflict and calm, in every humanitarian worker who reaches the unreachable, and in every diplomat who chooses dialogue over discord.”
On practical matters for the high-level week, Dujarric said the Secretariat will publish lists of bilaterals the day before they occur and that the UN is coordinating security with the host country, the U.S. Secret Service, the New York Police Department and the State Department. He said interior security at UN Headquarters remains at a high level and the Secretariat expects to hold daily briefings during the week, with the office open on weekend days and back at the podium on Friday unless breaking news requires otherwise.
Dujarric also referenced international observances: World Cleanup Day the following day and the International Day of Peace on Sunday, and summarized the Secretary-General’s message that “peace is everyone's business.”
