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Ban Kim Moon Rolls out
Five Year Action Agenda
By: Abu Kamara
26 January, 2012
 The
United Nations Secretary General, Ban Kim Moon has revealed
plans for his second terms five years agenda with issues of
human rights, good governance, sustainable development and
preventive diplomacy taking the center stage on the agenda.
Addressing the Member States during an informal meeting on
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 held at the Conference room four
of the UN headquarters in New York, the Secretary General
said that the next five years of his term will be crucial
for defining and agreeing on what he referred d to as a “
common vision for the future”. He pointed out that his plan
was aimed at broadening the base of constituencies working
together for adopting flexible but robust intentional
architecture capable of addressing the increasing stresses
on the global system.
Mr. Ban Kim Moon reaffirmed the UN central role in
strengthening international governance, and establishment of
constructive patterns of collaboration in the management of
“unprecedented threats” and demands for change and the need
to take advantage of new generational opportunities. He told
the audience that UN as a global body, is uniquely
positioned to facilitate this agenda because according to
him, it has the capability to provide integrated solutions
across interconnected issues areas such as development,
peace and security, human rights, and humanitarian actions.
“The currents of change are transforming our human and
physical geography. Demographic transformation; the
emergence of new centers of economic dynamism; accelerating
inequality within and across nations; challenges to the
existing social contact by a disillusioned, mobilized
citizenry; technological and organizational transformation
linking people directly as new never before; and climate
change” These, the Secretary General noted are placing the
foundations of the global system under unprecedented stress.
He therefore urged the international community to work
assiduously in order to ensure that this generation and the
succeeding ones benefit from the opportunities presented by
this changing reality.
The focus of the Secretary General’s Five Year Action Agenda
is to keep the world solidly on track to meet the poverty
reduction targets focusing inequalities, and making
particular efforts in countries with special needs and in
those which have not achieved sufficient progress. The plan
also take cognizant of the need to complete the final drive
to eliminate deaths from top killers by 2015:malaria; polio;
new pediatric HIV infections; maternal and neonatal tetanus;
and measles… The Secretary General Five Year Agenda also
focuses on the promotion of climate financing through
operationalzing the Green Climate Fund, and set public and
private funds on a trajectory to reach the agreed
$100billion by 2020. It also called for the prioritization
of early warning and early action on preventing violent
conflict.
Mean while, most least developed countries have welcomed the
UN Secretary General Five Year Action Agenda and expressed
readiness to work with him towards the realization of the
goals. Some African delegates urged the Secretary General to
pay serious attention to the conflict in Somalia, Darfur and
those African nations that have emerged from civil
conflicts.
Abu Kamara
Minister Counselor for Press and Public Affairs
At the Permanent Mission of Liberia to the United Nations
Cell 2153037962
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