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UNGA High-Level discussion on “Making the Most of the 2024 Summit of the Future”

Event Summary

Contributed by Baha’i International Community, Club de Madrid, Coalition for the UN We Need, Global Governance Innovation Network, Global Women Leaders: Voices for Change and Inclusion, Stimson Center

Posted 10 October 2022

   

Fears of escalating conflict, a global food crisis, new COVID-19 variants, irreversible climate change, and eroding collaboration in the global economy threaten to undermine the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and other efforts to advance human progress. Yet, a once-in-a-generation opportunity to review and improve global tools for managing such challenges, a Summit of the Future, is planned for September 2024 in New York by the United Nations’ 193 Member States, preceded by a preparatory ministerial meeting, in September 2023, at the start of UNGA High-Level Week in New York. Considering major proposals put forward initially in UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ seminal Our Common Agenda report (including a New Agenda for Peace, a Global Digital Compact, and a Declaration on Future Generations), this one-hour, high-level moderated conversation which was held on the sidelines of UNGA77 sought to encourage more ambitious, forward-looking thinking and deliberation on global governance renewal and innovation in the run-up to the Summit of the Future.

Please find highlights from the event in the document attached at the bottom of the page.

Format: A sixty-minute program with an opening segment, followed by a moderated dialogue.

A High-Level UNGA77 Side Event on Thursday, 22 September 2022, from 12:00-1:00pm, followed by a light luncheon reception at the Bahá’í International Community at 866 UN Plaza, Suite 120 (corner of E. 48th St. and 1st Ave.)

Welcome      

Dan Perell, Co-Chair, Coalition for the UN We Need and Representative, Bahá’í International Community

Brian Finlay, President and CEO, The Stimson Center

Opening Remarks

H.S.H. Prince Albert II, Sovereign Prince of Monaco

Co-Chairs

H.E. Danilo Türk, former President of Slovenia and UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, is President of Club de Madrid and a member of the High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism.

H.E. María Fernanda Espinosa, former Foreign and Defense Minister of Ecuador, was President of the 73rd General Assembly of the United Nations. She is co-chair of the Coalition for the UN We Need Steering Committee and a member of the Global Women Leaders: Voices for Change and Inclusion.

High-Level Panelists

H.E. Laura Chinchilla, Former President of Costa Rica and Vice-President, Club de Madrid

H.E. Ibrahim Gambari, Chief of Staff to the President of Nigeria and former Foreign Minister, UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, and Co-Chair of the Albright-Gambari Commission

H.E. Christopher Lu, Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform 

Natalie Samarasinghe, Global Director, Advocacy, Open Society Foundations

Several Foreign Ministers visiting New York for the start of UNGA77 have been extended invitations.

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