Calling for increased cooperation among Member States, the incoming President of the General Assembly said today that the upcoming year would be pivotal for the 193-nation organ as it sought to identify the parameters of the post-2015 development agenda. “The magnitude of the task before us will require decisive action and the highest levels of collaboration, and we must prove ourselves and our efforts to be equal to the enormity of the task,” said John Ashe ( Antigua and Barbuda) during the opening of the Assembly’s sixty-eighth session. He said he looked forward to the Assembly completing its ambitious agenda in a timely and effective manner, adding that he was encouraged by the “almost universal pledges of cooperation” he had received during meetings preceding the session’s opening. Hopefully, those pledges would make the collective task of tackling the bolder aspects of the General Assembly’s work more feasible, while also instilling a greater sense of urgency into the body and ending procrastination and delay.
Posted on: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 16:00:07 +0000
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