At ‘Partnering for Food Security’ Event, Secretary-General Sees Commitment

 

to Moving from Principles to Action

 

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s closing remarks at an event on partnering for food security in New York, today, 26 September:

I am very encouraged by everything I have heard.  I see commitment to moving from principles to action.  Let us continue to work in this vein.

We in the United Nations and Bretton Woods organizations are here to help.

We want to support country-led strategies.

We want to develop those strategies in a spirit of partnership among national governments, civil society, the private sector and multilateral organizations.

And we want them to be implemented through clear investment plans and programmes, with the help of bilateral and multilateral financial mechanisms.

Several of you have stressed that we need strong monitoring systems to evaluate progress, identify challenges and ensure transparency and accountability.

Some of you have also highlighted the need for better coordination.

I am taking these points seriously.  So are the members of my Task Force.

More broadly, I remain committed to working with you not only on these challenges but also on other global threats, including climate change, the economic crisis, and nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.

These are the multilateral issues and global issues of our age.  They provide the test of our leadership. 

Thank you very much for your very active participation.  I count on your commitment and leadership.

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