Luanda – Angolan President, João Lourenço, on Tuesday in New York, United States of America (USA), expressed his concern with an attempt to empty, ignore or even replace the role and importance of the United Nations in the resolution of major issues that plagues the humanity.
Speaking at the general debate of the 79th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, he said that since the creation of the UN, after the 2nd World War, the populations aimed for a peaceful coexistence on a global level.
According to the President, in this way they stated that episodes that could put harmony, peace and universal security at risk would be the subject of careful attention and preventive measures taken within the UN, so that they would not degenerate into conflicts and wars that revived distressing moments observed during the period from 1939 to 1945.
Right after almost eight decades, João Lourenço assessed the objective finding that is done currently, saying that this perspective not only was it not achieved, "but we seem to be moving away from the purposes of which the United Nations was founded".
However, due to this reality, the Angolan President understands that it is necessary to analyze "where we failed and what measures we should take to make the United Nations intervention more active and active in the search for solutions that contribute to preventing conflicts, strengthening peace and security world, trade and international cooperation, to guarantee the destruction of nations and the well-being of the people of our planet”.
He said that taking into account this context, there is no more appropriate stage than this Assembly to reverse this reality and assume the urgent need for reform of the UN, placing special emphasis on adapting the Security Council to the realities of the contemporary world.
In the statesman's view, the current format and composition of the Security Council (SC) still reflect the post-war reality, long surpassed by the time and development of other regions of the planet, many of them from then colonized countries that are now independent countries that are members of the United Nations.
According to João Lourenço, the reform of the UN Security Council and the International Financial Institutions, emerging from Bretton Woods, appears urgent to give a voice to the countries of the Global South, namely Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and to the Indian Subcontinent.
He stressed that the imperative of multilateralism must prevail as the only framework truly capable of promoting peace and security.
The high-level debate of the 79th General Assembly of the United Nations began today, in New York City, with the presence of Heads of State and Government from around the world and will continue until the 30th.
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