« Nous savons ce qu'il faut faire » : les vérités de Bassiou Diomaye Faye sur la dette à la tribune de l'ONU
This Thursday, before the United Nations General Assembly, the President of the Republic, Bassirou Diakhar Diomaye Faye, delivered a frank assessment of the global financial system. Furthermore, he addressed the international community on the issue of debt, placing this topic at the heart of his call for a reform of the global financial architecture.
He believes that lasting peace cannot be separated from development. "Forty years after the adoption of the Declaration on the Right to Development, we know what needs to be done to achieve it: a profound reform of the international financial architecture, sustainable debt management, fair global taxation, better access to concessional financing, and finally, the implementation of the Seville commitment and the pact for the future," he acknowledged.
The Head of State maintains that Senegal also believes in the transformative potential of new technologies, including the development of artificial intelligence based on standards of ethics, responsibility and inclusion.
“International financial reform, sustainable debt management, fair global taxation…”
He then explained: "The launch of our first satellite illustrates our desire to make space, digital technology, and artificial intelligence tools at the service of human development."
“We are all aware,” he said, “of the challenges facing the Organization, including the worrying financial situation which affects its operational capacity and raises questions about its effectiveness. This is the case for peacekeeping operations. It is also the case for the Sustainable Development Goals, the achievement of which is considerably behind schedule. Faced with this admittedly unpromising reality, some might be tempted to consider multilateralism an outdated model and to act outside our common mechanisms.”
Before suggesting that "Senegal does not share this vision," he added, "On the contrary, it is precisely because the world is experiencing an unprecedented accumulation of crises that we need a stronger, more representative, and more effective United Nations. We will not resolve crises by further fragmenting the multilateral system. We will not build peace through a logic of power dynamics. We will not guarantee a just international order by substituting force for law. That would jeopardize the Organization's primary purpose: dialogue, conflict prevention, the peaceful settlement of disputes, cooperation, and respect for international law."
"A stronger organization also requires that member states respect their financial commitments..."
The Head of State welcomed the UN80 initiative, which he considers "a historic opportunity to undertake the necessary structural and normative transformations," while specifying his vision of the reform: according to him, it should not reduce the ambition of the Organization, "but make it less bureaucratic in its operation, more agile in action, more efficient in its spending, and better articulated between headquarters and the field."
He illustrated Senegal's concrete commitment to the UN system by citing the construction, using its own funds, of the United Nations House in Diamniadio, about thirty kilometers from Dakar. "This platform, equipped with the latest technologies, will bring together all the entities of the United Nations system on a single site, thus promoting greater coherence and efficiency," he noted.
This was done while asserting: "But a stronger organization also requires that member states respect their financial commitments under their statutory contributions."
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