UN adopts pact to build ‘better future’ for humanity

A new international consensus for the good of all. The member states of the UN committed themselves, on Sunday, September 22, to drawing “a better future” for humanity, tested by wars, misery and global warming, through a “Pact for the Future”. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had launched the idea of ​​a “Summit for the Future” in 2021, seeing it as a “unique opportunity” to change the course of human history.

After tough negotiations until the last moment, Moscow on Sunday showed its opposition to the text, without however preventing its adoption by consensus. “P“Nobody is happy with this text”Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin stressed. Russia, supported by Belarus, Iran, North Korea, Nicaragua and Syria, wanted to introduce an amendment stating that the UN “cannot intervene” in business “internal” States, but the vast majority of the Assembly refused to take this proposal into account.

Before the summit, Antonio Guterres had expressed some frustration over the content of the text, calling on states to show “vision” and of “courage”. The Pact ultimately contains more than 20 pages 56 “actions” in areas ranging from the importance of multilateralism to respect for the UN Charter and peacekeeping, from the reform of international financial institutions to that of the UN Security Council, or even the fight against climate change, disarmament and the development of artificial intelligence.