No possibility of Yunus-Modi meeting at UNGA: Foreign adviser

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus is made up our minds to recede Dhaka on Monday (23 September) to motivate the 79th United Nations Traditional Meeting (UNGA) in Contemporary York, which is considered as a gigantic opportunity for him to share his authorities’s priorities following the pupil-led mass uprising, and financial plans including which areas particularly the arena crew is also important in strengthening and stabilising Bangladesh’s financial system.

There’ll, nonetheless, be no meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, International Adviser Md Touhid Hossain prompt journalists this day (21 September) at a media briefing at International Service Academy.

Asked about any likelihood of a gathering with Modi, the international adviser said it seems to be there is no likelihood as Modi became as soon as going there a bit early while Chief Adviser Yunus became as soon as going there later.

The executive adviser can hold conferences—bilateral and make contact with on—with prime ministers of the Netherlands, Pakistan, Nepal and the president of the European Union, US secretary of order, UN secretary-total, UN human rights chief, the World Bank president, and USAID administrator, said the international adviser.

The international adviser, nonetheless, said he can hold a bilateral meeting with Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on the sidelines.

The principle day of the high-stage Traditional Debate will likely be held on Tuesday (24 September).

“The Chief Adviser will close three days in Contemporary York and he’ll high-tail away Contemporary York on 27 September,” Hossain said.

The executive adviser will bring his speech on 27 September, said the international adviser.

Hossain said a valuable political changeover has taken position in Bangladesh and so that they’re making an strive to let folks know so as that no confusion remains referring to what took place in Bangladesh. He said Prof Yunus is extremely respected globally and all worldwide locations will take hold of his remarks severely.

Hossain said he’ll high-tail to Contemporary York by a separate commercial flight two days earlier than Chief Adviser’s arrival in Contemporary York.

Hossain said reforms and human rights will likely be highlighted and the authorities will continue to fetch commitments to take hold of steps on human rights points.

“I’m in a position to’t justify why there had been big delegations within the previous. However the unusual authorities wants to handbook determined of pointless prices,” he said.

The international adviser said, this time the delegation can hold 57 people, and a gigantic sequence of them are security personnel. On old occasions, the Bangladesh delegation became as soon as quite a bit of between 300 and 100 plus.

Hossain said finest these with relate tasks at the UNGA will accompany the manager adviser.

Bangladesh will host a high-stage reception on September 24 marking 50 years of Bangladesh’s UN membership.

The theme of the Traditional Debate is “Leaving no person within the aid of: Performing collectively for the building of peace, sustainable building and human dignity for existing and future generations.”

South Asian affairs expert Michael Kugelman previously said Prof Yunus’ participation at the 79th UN Traditional Meeting (UNGA) will likely be a gigantic opportunity for him to share his authorities’s financial plans, including which areas particularly the arena crew is also important in strengthening and stabilising Bangladesh’s financial system.

“He will likely be talking in Contemporary York on the greatest global platform since he took over the position of adviser main the intervening time authorities,” said Kugelman, Director of the South Asia Institute at Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.

Kugelman said there are several issues that Prof Yunus would possibly perchance perchance well produce, several issues that he would possibly perchance perchance well deliver.

“I mediate that above all he need to level-headed lay out a imaginative and prescient for governance, the targets of the intervening time authorities, his plans for reforms and his efforts to push for the restoration of democracy.”

Kugelman said he thinks that Prof Yunus’ platform at the UNGA would give him an opportunity to weigh in on what’s arguably Bangladesh’s greatest humanitarian trouble, the Rohingya refugee divulge.

“I mediate that it would possibly perchance perchance well be helpful for him to fetch a pitch for world aid or extra world aid for Rohingya refugees, which will likely be an especially most important pitch for 2 causes,” he said.

The 79th session of the UN Traditional Meeting (UNGA 79) opened on 10 September.

Meanwhile, the heads of states and governments will hold at UN Headquarters in Contemporary York on September 22-23 to address the excessive challenges and gaps in global governance uncovered by newest global shocks.

The Summit of the Future, the first of its kind, will bring collectively leaders, advocates, and activists of all ages to search out out how our world scheme can larger meet the wants of unusual and future generations.

Countries need to exercise a as soon as-in-a-skills UN summit to address unusual and emerging global challenges and reform outdated world institutions, Secretary-Traditional António Guterres said in Contemporary York.

Guterres became as soon as talking as negotiations for the Summit of the Future, which opens at UN Headquarters on Sunday, enter the final stretch.

“I essentially hold one overriding message this day: an attraction to Member States for a spirit of compromise. Imprint the arena what we can produce, as soon as we work collectively,” he said.

‘A well-known first step’

The 2-day Summit of the Future is “a valuable first step in direction of making global institutions extra legit, efficient, and match for the arena of this day and the following day,” Guterres prompt journalists.

He said work already performed within the lead-up finds “seemingly breakthroughs on a series of valuable fronts”.

This entails “the strongest language on Security Council reform in a skills—and the most concrete step in direction of Council enlargement since 1963,” the first-ever governance measures for Man made Intelligence (AI) and other technologies, and advancements in reforming the arena financial architecture.

Moderately a couple of items quilt financing for the Sustainable Building Targets (SDGs) and dedication to plot an SDG Stimulus to raise financial make stronger to setting up worldwide locations.

“It would possibly perchance perchance perchance well be tragic if all of these will likely be misplaced,” he warned.

Challenges, crises and warfare

Guterres said the Summit is “so excessive” on legend of “world challenges are moving quicker than our skill to resolve them.”

He pointed to “out-of-put a watch on geo-political divisions and runaway conflicts – now not least in Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan and beyond,” to boot to “runaway” climate exchange, inequalities and debt, and the building of AI and other technologies that lack steering or guardrails.

“Crises are interacting and feeding off each and every other – for example, as digital technologies unfold climate disinformation that deepens distrust and fuels polarization,” he said.

Reform multilateral institutions

Meanwhile, multilateral institutions “born in a bygone generation for a bygone world” merely can now not put up.

Guterres said so plenty of the challenges the arena is facing this day weren’t on the radar 80 years ago when these institutions were created.

“Our founders understood that times would exchange,” he said.  “They understood that the values that underpin our global institutions are timeless – but the institutions themselves can now not be frozen in time.”

An ever-changing world

He said the peacebuilders reduction then would possibly perchance perchance well now not hold predicted the changes which hold took place all over the last eight decades.

They include the independence actions, the financial and geopolitical upward thrust of many setting up worldwide locations, catastrophic climate penalties, home exploration, and the building of the Net, smartphones and social media, which is probably going to be boosted by AI.

“Adore our founders, we can now not know precisely what the future holds,” he acknowledged.

“But we produce now not desire a crystal ball to hold a study that twenty first century challenges require trouble-solving mechanisms that are extra helpful, networked and inclusive; that serious energy imbalances in global institutions want to be adjusted and updated; and that our institutions need to intention on the skills and representation of all of humanity.”

Even supposing exchange is now not going to happen overnight, “it would possibly perchance perchance inaugurate this day,” he insisted.

Stop the job

Member States attending the Summit are expected to undertake a Pact for the Future, with a World Digital Compact and Declaration on Future Generations annexed to it.

Guterres expressed hope that they’ll “produce the total lot seemingly” to fetch these documents “over the produce line”.

“We’re going to give you the likelihood to’t create a future match for our grandchildren with programs constructed for our grandparents,” he said, stressing that the Summit “can now not fail”.

World leaders

More than 130 Heads of Divulge and Govt are scheduled to motivate the Summit of the Future, which is taking position from 22-23 September – factual earlier than the annual debate within the UN Traditional Meeting.

The Summit will likely be preceded by two “motion days” where non-governmental organizations (NGOs), lecturers and deepest sector representatives will interact on the first subject issues.