“All of them telephone for a coordinated response. All of them underline wherefore we need planetary cooperation. We request to punctual ourselves of our corporate strength,” she said successful a pre-recorded message.
Remembering that “the United Nations was calved retired of crisis”, she said “crises person the imaginable to summation unity and resolve” and the satellite “must harness the momentum created and instrumentality action.”
Ms. Solberg was 1 of the speakers connected the 2nd time of the high-level week of the General Assembly. After being held virtually past twelvemonth due the coronavirus pandemic, this year’s gathering volition feature “hybrid” activities that volition see leaders successful idiosyncratic on with virtual participants.
Climate change
On climate change, she said much countries, particularly ample economies, need to rise their ambition level up of COP26, the UN Climate Conference that happens astatine the extremity of October successful Glasgow.
She affirmed that Norway is doing its part and pointed to the country’s “new people to chopped emissions by astatine slightest 50 per cent – and towards 55 per cent – by 2030.”
To tackle a warming climate, the Norwegian leader argued the satellite needs to urgently restore the wellness of the ocean.
She noted the agenda presented by High-level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, where members person made a committedness to sustainably negociate each of their water areas by 2025.
“This is simply a bold target. But our ambition is adjacent bolder: We telephone connected each water and coastal states to marque a akin committedness by 2030,” she asked.
COVID-19 pandemic
For Ms. Solberg, the COVID-19 pandemic “has shown, yet again, that planetary problems necessitate planetary solutions” and asked for changes successful the planetary system.
“We request to betterment and fortify the planetary wellness architecture to prevent, detect, and respond to aboriginal threats. And we request a afloat financed WHO playing a central, coordinating role,” she defended.
She pointed to “a glaring inequity successful vaccine distribution”, saying the result “is a disconnected world.”
“It is unacceptable and dangerous. The information is: the pandemic is not over, and it volition not beryllium implicit anyplace until it’s implicit everywhere,” the Prime Minister added.
Turning to the recovery, she told Member States they “have an accidental to bash things right” and must align their efforts with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
“We indispensable put successful the greenish transition. We indispensable put successful people, women and girls successful particular. And we indispensable fulfil the committedness of the SDGs, to permission nary 1 behind,” she said.
Addressing however that betterment tin beryllium financed, she asked for just and effectual taxation systems and pointed to the statement reached successful the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on a caller model for planetary tax reform, calling it “an important measurement forward.”
Democracy and overseas affairs
On a idiosyncratic note, Ms. Solberg recalled that she stands as a Prime Minister who mislaid an predetermination past week. After 8 years, her Government will measurement down and manus implicit to a new administration.
“I anticipation they volition win successful taking our state forward. I americium mentioning this because orderly transitions cannot beryllium taken for granted,” she said.
She past pointed to a “decline successful ideology and respect for quality rights”, giving examples from Venezuela to Tigray and Myanmar.
On Afghanistan, she said she was “alarmed and saddened” by caller developments and “will judge the Taliban by their actions, not but by their words.”
“The creation of the interim authorities is discouraging,” she added.
In closing, the Prime Minister commended the Secretary-General for the “realistic assessment” he presented in his ‘Our Common Agenda’ earlier successful the month.
“There is simply a mode forward. We person already charted our course; the 2030 docket is our roadmap. Let´s not hesitate. Let’s articulation forces and get started close away,” she concluded.
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