{"id":93365,"date":"2020-09-22T00:27:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T16:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=93365"},"modified":"2020-09-22T00:33:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T16:33:47","slug":"multilateralism-not-an-option-but-a-necessity-unga-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=93365","title":{"rendered":"Multilateralism &#8220;not an option but a necessity&#8221; -UNGA president"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>NEW YORK, Sept 21 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; Volkan Bozkir, president of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), on Monday stressed the importance of multilateralism, calling for collective efforts for a better future.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Multilateralism is not an option but a necessity as we build back better and greener for a more equal, more resilient and more sustainable world,&#8221; Bozkir said in his opening remarks at a high-level meeting to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the United Nations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He called for collective efforts and continued commitment from the member states to work together to strengthen coordination and global governance for the common future of present and coming generations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The United Nations must be at the center of our efforts,&#8221; Bozkir said, noting &#8220;the world has changed in unimaginable ways&#8221; since the UN was established. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We must support the United Nations to evolve into more agile, effective, and accountable organization, so it is fit for purpose and can deliver the future we want,&#8221; said the UNGA president. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noting &#8220;the United Nations is only as strong as its members&#8217; commitment to its ideas and each other,&#8221; Bozkir emphasized that &#8220;it is now time to mobilise our resources, strengthen your efforts, and show unprecedented political will and leadership to ensure the future we want, and the United Nations we need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is now time to act. I am taking the call for renewed global actions seriously,&#8221; he said.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, Sept 21 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; Volkan Bozkir, president of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), on Monday stressed the importance of multilateralism, calling for collective efforts for a better future. &#8220;Multilateralism is not an option but a necessity as we build back better and greener for a more equal, more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":93371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,291],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93365"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}