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Three New Pacts to Be Approved at the UN Summit of the Future
• By David Bell and Thi Thuy Van DinhPrevious articles analyzed the impact of the climate agenda on health policy, the UN's betrayal of its own hunger eradication agenda, and the undemocratic method of using former leaders and the wealthy to back the UN's agenda.
The UN will be holding the Summit of the Future ("Summit of the Future: Multilateral Solutions of the Future") at its headquarters in New York on 22-23 September 2024, during the 79th session of the General Assembly (UNGA). Leaders of 193 Member States are expected to reaffirm their commitments to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which set 2030 as the deadline for the world to achieve the 17 goals (or 'Agenda 2030').
The SDGs include poverty eradication, industrial development, environmental protection, education, gender equality, peace, and partnerships. The Summit is also an occasion for world leaders to reiterate commitment to the 1945 Charter that laid out the purposes, governing structures, and framework of the UN (Secretariat, UNGA, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, International Court of Justice, and Trusteeship Council).
The Summit was initiated by Secretary-General (UNSG) Antonio Guterres, through his 2021 report entitled "Our Common Agenda," in order to "forge a new global consensus on what our future should look like, and what we can do today to secure it." The UN claims rather dramatically, in the draft Pact for the Future, that this Summit is necessary because "we are confronted by rising catastrophic and existential risks, many caused by the choices we make," and that "we risk tipping into a future of persistent crisis and breakdown" if we do not "change course."
It further claims that only the UN would be able to handle these apparently multiplying crises as they "far exceed the capacity of any single State alone." This script sounds familiar: Global crises call for global governance. But can we trust the scriptwriter who is the only contestant for that governor's seat?
Since 2020, the trust of "The Peoples" in the UN was seriously undermined, as the UN's health arm – the World Health Organization (WHO) – promoted policies known to cause mass impoverishment, loss of education, child marriage, and rising rates of preventable diseases. None of the other organs of the whole system stood against these abuses, apart from limited recording of the harms they were encouraging, while systematically blaming the virus and not the unprecedented and unscientific response.