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Rebecca Greenspan outlines peacemaking-first agenda and calls for urgent UN reform
Summary
In an interactive General Assembly dialogue, candidate Rebecca Greenspan laid out three priorities—peacemaking, reform for delivery and cooperation for the future—and answered member-state questions on Security Council reform, financing, multilingualism and climate vulnerabilities.
Rebecca Greenspan, a candidate for United Nations secretary-general, told the General Assembly that her top priorities would be "peace, reform, and future," pledging to make peacemaking the office's first charge and to restructure the secretary-general's office to field agile mediation teams.
Greenspan summarized her approach as proactive: "If elected secretary-general, I will be a peacemaker. I will act before conflicts erupt, be the first to pick up the phone," she said, citing her work on the Black Sea initiative as a concrete example of persistent mediation that reopened grain exports and averted a food crisis.
The interactive dialogue gave member states and civil society a chance to press Greenspan on policy detail. The representative of Uruguay, speaking for the Group of 77 and China, asked how she would build on the UN80 reform work without eroding the intergovernmental balance, accelerate delivery of the 2030 Agenda, ensure gender and geographical balance in…
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