"Urgent int’l cooperation had a need to fight pandemic crisis"
Bangladesh Permanent Representative to the UN Rabab Fatima has urged the international community to get together to address the results of Covid-19 in an successful, effective, and coordinated manner.
She said this while talking with the UN Basic Assembly on Friday about the Secretary Standard Antonio Guterres’ annual statement and priorities for 2021.
Ambassador Fatima thanked the Secretary Standard for his leadership found in ensuring that the UN remains operational, regardless of the enormous task the pandemic has imposed on its work.
In her remarks, Ambassador Fatima highlighted Bangladesh’s national priorities, namely, ensuring covid-19 vaccine, climate urgent, graduation from LDC status, implementation of 2030 Agenda, harnessing digital technology, peacekeeping and Rohingya issues, amongst others.
While speaking on the imperativeness and importance of construction partnership and solidarity as the global network endeavors to build back out of this crisis, Ambassador Fatima emphasized that for effective Covid-19 response and recovery, vaccines must be made available to all as a subject of priority.
She stressed that in order to overcome the impending ‘vaccine divide’, within and among nations, the UN needs to have the lead in ensuring equitable, safe and sound, and affordable global usage of the vaccines.
Ambassador Fatima further added that good distribution of Covid-19 vaccines should match the same urgency and means which may have marked the development and roll-out of Covid-19 vaccines.
Discussing Bangladesh’s ensuing graduation by the LDC status, Ambassador Rabab Fatima said that it is imperative to support an incentives-based graduating pathway for LDCs with time-bound assist measures meant for graduating and graduated countries.
If not, she cautioned, the prevailing vulnerabilities together with the implications of Covid-19 would imperil the hard-earned expansion gains of the countries.
Commending the Secretary-General designed for his ask leaders of the environment to declare circumstances of climate emergency until carbon neutrality is reached, Bangladesh Ambassador advised the interacting with that Bangladesh parliament declared a “Planetary Unexpected emergency” and it called on the world to operate “in a war-footing’’ to avoid climate change.
Ambassador Fatima further explained that as the current chair of the 48-member Climate Vulnerable Discussion board (CVF), Bangladesh underscores the value of giving special focus on vulnerable groups like the LDCs and the SIDS in all climate discourses.
Discussing the COP-26 to be placed in November this year, she expressed pray that ambitious new environment targets as outlined by the UN Secretary General and climate finance commitments would be fulfilled in the Glasgow appointment.
Ambassador Fatima, found in her speech, reiterated Bangladesh dedication towards UN’s peacekeeping, peacebuilding and sustaining peace agenda, including more robust give attention to women and youth found in pursuing these.
She mentioned that despite Covid-19 challenges, Bangladeshi peacekeepers and different frontline workers continued to support UN’s peacekeeping attempts globally.
In this regard, she underlined that security and safety of peacekeepers during potential pandemics or various other such emergency situations ought to be ensured by embedding required preparedness in the peacekeeping mandates.
Taking opportunity of this meeting, Ambassador Fatima reminded that Bangladesh continues to be hosting 1.1 million Rohingyas, and that more decisive actions towards durable solutions would be had a need to resolve the protracted crisis.
She urged the UN Secretary Standard to mobilize greater focus on the complex situation which, she warned, if not resolved early, may bring about further destabilization in your community.
It is customary for the Secretary Basic to highlight his priorities via an informal briefing to the Member Says in the beginning of every year.
This year’s priorities for the UN are: fair and equal distribution of Covid-19 vaccines and protecting health systems, inclusive and sustainable economic recovery, climate and biodiversity, tackling poverty and inequality, human rights, gender equality, addressing roiling peace and security, nuclear disarmament, protecting the dangers of digital opportunities and reimagining governance of global commons. Permanent Representatives and delegates of 193 Member Says of the United Nations had been present at the briefing.
Permanent Representatives and delegates of 193 Member States of the US were present at the briefing.
