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UN Secretary-General António Guterres urges concrete reforms under "pact for the future" and UNITY plan
Summary
UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the General Assembly that the "pact for the future" and UNITY institutional reforms are designed to restore public trust by focusing on prevention in peace and security, AI governance, financing for the SDGs, digital cooperation and stronger country-level UN capacities.
António Guterres told the General Assembly that the "pact for the future" and the UNITY reforms are complementary initiatives meant to rebuild public trust through ‘‘concrete action, meaningful reform, and results that people can see, feel, and believe in.’’
Guterres opened by thanking the president of the General Assembly for convening the discussion and said the remarks are part of a series of monthly briefings on UN reform workstreams. "As we all know far too well, trust is in dangerously short supply around the world," he said, listing fragmentation, polarization, armed conflict, constrained development resources, delayed climate action and an unregulated rush to new technologies as drivers of that deficit.
Why it matters: The speech laid out how the pact and UNITY aim to move…
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