Mr. Thapa said that the motto of his presidency will be “to offer better”, which requires strengthening partnerships and multilateralism to achieve a more effective implementation of initiatives, including the 2030 agenda Adopted 15 years ago.

“Better delivery is not an option – it is an imperative. This is our restoration path of confidence in multilateralism, the distribution of divisions, to empower the most vulnerable and most translated commitments in action, “he said.

Four vice-presidents were also elected for the coming year: Amar Bendjama (Algeria), Héctor Gómez Hernández (Spain), Wellington Darío Bencosme Castaños (Dominican Republic) and Paréyr Hovhannisyan (Armenia).

80 years of ecosoc

The UN Economic and social council (ECOSOC) is one of the six main United Nations bodies, responsible for promoting international economic and social and social development.

It has 54 Member States, elected by the General Assembly for three -year mandates on a rotating basis, with seats distributed by region.

ECOSOC coordinates the work of agencies, commissions and specialized UN organizations on questions ranging from sustainable development and human rights. It also serves as a central platform to promote debate, forge a consensus and promote measures on global economic and social issues.

For Mr. Thapa, this body is at the heart of the training of the world development program and the guarantee that no one is left behind.

“Ecosoc is our place. He needs dedication, participation and active commitment to all members of the UN and stakeholders, “he said.

Five ways to better deliver

Although “offering better” is the motto of the presidency of Mr. Thapa, he described five specific areas on which he and the Council will concentrate during the coming year.

With more than 735 million people worldwide, its first priority area is to transform agriculture to strengthen rural resilience and finish hunger.

Digital entrepreneurship and young people’s commitment are linked to this – and are its second priority area. He noted the “bulge of young people” in many developing countries which, according to him, will be a powerful demographic asset if he can be benefited.

Like the presidents of Ecosoc before him, his third priority area deals with climate action and resilience. This time, however, he would like Ecosoc to focus specifically on the lakes and flood floods.

Its last two priority areas are to reform international financial architecture so that it is more inclusive and commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Ecosoc.

Thapa noted that he and Ecosoc’s support will endeavor to meet these challenges in the midst of multiple crises, in particular the acceleration of climate change, the increase in geopolitical tensions and the decrease in confidence in the multilateral system.

“These challenges are systemic and interconnected. They require integrated, inclusive and prospective responses, ”said Thapa.

Repair, repair, repair

Before the remarks of Mr. Thapa, Bob Rae, outgoing president of Ecosoc and ambassador from Canada to the UN, thought about his mandate. He recognized that the world is currently in a time of great difficulties and authentic anxiety.

But he said that it was to be the work of Ecosoc – and the member states of the UN more broadly – not only to give a voice to this anxiety and this difficulty, but also to find solutions for this.

“We hear a lot in the United Nations discourse on how things are broken, how things collapsed, how things are dislocated … But our work is to repair, it is to repair, it is to allow things to heal, it is to rotate change,” said Mr. Rae.

Mr. Thapa and Mr. Rae said that multilateralism can work and that the Ecosoc should play a unique role in the rewriting of the story surrounding international cooperation.

“We must reaffirm our collective belief in the power of multilateralism – not as an abstract ideal, but as a pragmatic tool to provide better results for all,” said Thapa.

Without fuel, many basic installations cannot work, from water treatment factories to medical infrastructure.

Meanwhile, the Gazans now on the brink of famine have been reduced to taking desperate measures in their search for food, traveling the roads taken by convoys, said Olga Cherevko, worker of the UN aid, Olga Cherevko UN News.

“While we were driving, I saw an elderly man on the side of the road completely alone, on my knees, and he picked up handles of lenses that had spread on the ground in one of the previous convoys that had passed,” she said.

“He picked them up with his hands and simply put them in his t-shirt because it is obviously the only option he has at the moment to find food, because it is how desperate the situation has become. »»

Desperate actions

Gaza’s latest reports indicate that mothers who are not able to breastfeed because they do not eat enough to feed their babies, chickpeas, bread and rice, which are not suitable for infants.

In a Social media messageThe United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) stressed that “this is a condition that we can prevent”, calling for increased humanitarian access.

Furthermore, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO)) underlines that “the health needs in Gaza are immense. A continuous flow of medical supplies is critical. “

Meanwhile, health officers reported on Wednesday that at least 50 gasans had been killed and 400 others injured while waiting for food near Zikim Crossing in the North.

Ms. Cherevko, who works with the United Nations Coordination Office, Ochhaexplained that his mission to Kerem Shalom on Thursday morning had been delayed at a “maintenance point” for two hours before being authorized to go to the crossing point separating Gaza from Israel.

“Tactical breaks” are not enough

Although fuel supplies are welcome, they are far from sufficient, she insisted.

“We need hundreds of thousands of liters of fuel to enter every day so that we can even feed our most basic installations of power, water, sanitation, health care, emergency telecommunications and other critical installations,” she said.

The announcement of daytime military breaks by Israel last weekend seems to have slightly reduced the duration of aid to wait for permission to continue, noted the OCHA worker.

There has also been a “slight reduction” of security incidents involving gasans that take food from the United Nations trucks, she said.

In its last update on the emergency, OCHA said that four days since the start of the tactical breaks declared by Israel: “We always see losses among those looking for help and more deaths due to hunger and malnutrition … Unilateral tactical breaks do not allow the continuous flow of supplies necessary to meet the levels of immense needs in Gaza. »»

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