UNITED NATIONS, April 24 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called for the restoration of trust through the Pact for the Future and the UN80 Initiative.
At their core, both the pact and UN80 are about restoring trust -- through concrete action, meaningful reform, and results that people can see, feel and believe in, said Guterres.
"As we all know far too well, trust is in dangerously short supply around the world. We see sharp fragmentation and deep polarization. Conflicts causing horrific levels of death and destruction. Communities deprived of resources for development and resilience. Efforts to defer climate action and deny climate justice. And a frenetic race to build new technologies without guardrails," he told a General Assembly interactive dialogue on the Pact for the Future and the UN80 Initiative.
The pact is the world's pledge to tackle such shared challenges together, and it calls for a more inclusive, effective, and fit-for-purpose multilateral system to follow through. UN80 is about equipping UN member states with the right tools to do the job and making the world body more coherent, more effective, and more prepared to deliver on the vision set by member states, he said.
"The Pact for the Future and UN80 are interconnecting components of a single strategy of renewal. Together, they are designed to renew the vision and machinery of multilateralism, so the UN can further deliver with credibility and impact today and for generations to come," he said.
The pact and UN80 both seek to strengthen all three pillars of the UN mandate -- peace and security, sustainable development, and human rights -- and the connections between them, said Guterres.
"Multilateralism must do more than inspire and make promises. It must deliver results, because results build trust -- trust that multilateral action can deliver solutions at scale and speed, trust that nations can come together and act with common purpose, and trust we together can make a real difference in the lives of people," he said. "Let us do our part to build this trust -- for a stronger United Nations and a better future for all." ■
