Vietnam underscores peace and stability prerequisite for global challenges
VOV.VN - Peace and stability are the prerequisite for seeking solutions to global challenges, Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang, permanent representative of Vietnam to the UN, emphasized, while attending a plenary session held by the UN General Assembly on February 7 to discuss UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ priorities for 2024.
In his remarks at the event, Secretary-General Guterres voiced his concerns over the worsening violence, instability, geopolitical division, and conflicts threatening both international peace and security.
The top priority of the UN is to promote peace and to prevent wars and conflicts, he said, stressing that in order to cope with global challenges such as poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, humanitarian crises, and terrorism, countries need to make joint efforts and comprehensively reform multilateral systems, ranging from the UN Security Council to international economic - financial institutions.
Addressing the session, Ambassador Giang, shared the Secretary-General’s concern about the instability and multidimensional crises currently facing the international community.
As a means of seeking solutions to those global challenges, he stressed peace and stability form the prerequisite, meaning that member states need to comply with international law and the UN Charter, refrain from the use of force, and resolve disputes by peaceful means.
Regarding the Summit of the Future – a priority of the UN for 2024, the Vietnamese diplomat said this will be a chance for further enhancing international collaboration, making reforms, and implementing the international community’s common commitment to peace, prosperity, and sustainable development for future generations.
Vietnam will work to actively contribute to this process with a people-centred approach, he added.
As part of this occasion, the Ambassador greatly valued Guterres’ leadership role in promoting international assistance for the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and climate finance, including the adoption of initiatives such as the SDG Stimulus and the Just Energy Transition Partnership.
Vietnam will join other UN member states in supporting and making efforts aimed at implementing the abovementioned initiatives of the Secretary-General for the sake of common goals, Ambassador Giang added.
