The UK stands ready to work to advance the Secretary-General’s UN80 reform initiative: UK Statement in the UN General Assembly

Mr Secretary-Common, let me start by expressing our honest because of you to your management over the previous 9 years.

You may have steered the United Nations by means of an period of unprecedented international problem, with imaginative and prescient and resolve.

Underneath your tenure, and with our help, the UN has superior main priorities: elevating local weather motion to the highest of the worldwide agenda, championing digital cooperation, and strengthening humanitarian response in occasions of disaster.

The adoption of the Pact for the Future stands as a landmark achievement, charting a course for a extra inclusive, sustainable, and resilient world order.

However as you will have set out this morning, there isn’t any scarcity of challenges forward for the organisation, for multilateralism, and for our planet.

Your New 12 months’s message set the tone for the months forward. We should, as you stated, “get our priorities straight.” We should “select individuals and planet over ache.”

And as you stated so powerfully this morning, we should work “full steam forward” totally and faithfully, in help of the Constitution, as an essential “dwelling promise” to the individuals of the world.

Alongside the three ideas you highlighted, we welcome your UN80 reform initiative and your dedication to make this organisation extra inclusive, extra environment friendly, and higher capable of serve those that rely on it most.

And we welcome your clear message immediately about taking that ahead with continued excessive ambition.

These efforts are important to making sure the UN can meet the defining challenges of our time.

And the UK stands able to work with you, and all Member States, to advance this essential agenda.

Madam President, Mr Secretary‑Common, this week we mark 80 years because the first Common Meeting, Safety Council and ECOSOC conferences, held in London in January 1946.

And we look ahead to welcoming you to London this weekend to have fun this essential anniversary.

As we replicate on this organisation’s first eight a long time, we recall the outstanding efforts and achievements of these first delegates who got here collectively within the extraordinary circumstances of the aftermath of World Conflict, and we renew their conviction that nations appearing collectively can obtain way over they’ll alone.

Allow us to strategy the 12 months forward in that spirit, decided to work collectively to ship the progress that this world so urgently wants.