It is unclear what if anything the grand gathering, the World Cup of diplomacy, can achieve for the millions mired in conflict and poverty globally.
With Israel’s leader Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Iran’s new President Masoud Pezeshkian, due to attend, “Gaza will obviously be the most prominent of these conflicts in terms of what leaders are saying,” said Richard Gowan of the International Crisis Group.
World leaders to gather at UN as crises grow and conflicts rage, AFP, 9/19/2024
Summit of the Future
The Summit of the Future is a high-level event, bringing world leaders together at UN Headquarters in New York, to forge a new international consensus on how we deliver a better present and safeguard the future.
This once-in-a-generation opportunity serves as a moment to mend eroded trust and demonstrate that international cooperation can effectively tackle current challenges as well as those that have emerged in recent years or may yet be over the horizon.
The aim of the Summit is twofold: accelerate efforts to meet our existing international commitments and take concrete steps to respond to emerging challenges and opportunities.
This will be achieved through an action-oriented outcome document known as the Pact for the Future. At the opening of the Summit, world leaders are expected to adopt the Pact, which will include a Global Digital Compact and a Declaration on Future Generations as annexes.
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