by David Bell and Thi Thuy Van Dinh, Activist Post:
This is the fourth part in a series looking at the plans of the United Nations (UN) and its agencies designing and implementing the agenda of the Summit of the Future in New York on 22-23 September 2024, and its implications for global health, economic development, and human rights. Previous articles analyzed the impact of the climate agenda on health policy, the UN’s betrayal of its own hunger eradication agenda, and the undemocratic method of using former leaders and the wealthy to back the UN’s agenda.
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The UN will be holding the Summit of the Future (“Summit of the Future: Multilateral Solutions of the Future”) at its headquarters in New York on 22-23 September 2024, during the 79th session of the General Assembly (UNGA). Leaders of 193 Member States are expected to reaffirm their commitments to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which set 2030 as the deadline for the world to achieve the 17 goals (or ‘Agenda 2030’).
The SDGs include poverty eradication, industrial development, environmental protection, education, gender equality, peace, and partnerships. The Summit is also an occasion for world leaders to reiterate commitment to the 1945 Charter that laid out the purposes, governing structures, and framework of the UN (Secretariat, UNGA, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, International Court of Justice, and Trusteeship Council).
The Summit was initiated by Secretary-General (UNSG) Antonio Guterres, through his 2021 report entitled “Our Common Agenda,” in order to “forge a new global consensus on what our future should look like, and what we can do today to secure it.” The UN claims rather dramatically, in the draft Pact for the Future, that this Summit is necessary because “we are confronted by rising catastrophic and existential risks, many caused by the choices we make,” and that “we risk tipping into a future of persistent crisis and breakdown” if we do not “change course.”
It further claims that only the UN would be able to handle these apparently multiplying crises as they “far exceed the capacity of any single State alone.” This script sounds familiar: Global crises call for global governance. But can we trust the scriptwriter who is the only contestant for that governor’s seat?
Since 2020, the trust of “The Peoples” in the UN was seriously undermined, as the UN’s health arm – the World Health Organization (WHO) – promoted policies known to cause mass impoverishment, loss of education, child marriage, and rising rates of preventable diseases. None of the other organs of the whole system stood against these abuses, apart from limited recording of the harms they were encouraging, while systematically blaming the virus and not the unprecedented and unscientific response. However, this is not the crisis the UN has in mind in advancing the new agenda for the future. Its emphasis is quite the contrary, heightening the fear of future crises that will undo decades of human progress.
Although the Covid-19 response was ordered by national leaders, the UN actively pushed the disastrous one-size-fits-all measures including border closures, society shutdown, mass vaccination, removal of access to formal education, and, simultaneously promoting censorship of dissenting voices. The system and its highest official – UNSG – abrogated their responsibility for not “saving us from hell,” as the late UNSG Dag Hammarskjold once commented on his role (“It has been said that the UN was not created in order to bring us to heaven, but in order to save us from hell,” 1954).
While covering these crimes against humanity and avoiding accountability, the UN and world leaders intend to approve a set of 3 political, non-binding documents: i) a Pact for the Future, ii) a Declaration on Future Generations, and iii) a Global Digital Compact. All were placed under ‘silence procedure’ and were planned to be approved with little discussion.
Although this might raise eyebrows of ‘The Peoples,’ it is in conformation with the relevant UNGA Resolution adopted in 2022 (A/RES/76/307, para. 4)
The General Assembly,
4. Decides that the Summit will adopt a concise, action-oriented outcome document entitled “A Pact for the Future,” agreed in advance by consensus through intergovernmental negotiations.
Noteworthily, the silence procedure was introduced in March 2020 (UNGA Decision 74/544 of 27 March 2020 entitled “Procedure for taking decisions of the General Assembly during the Covid-19 pandemic”) for virtual meetings, but then conveniently remained.
Pact for the Future: General, Generous, and Hypocritical promises
The latest version of the Pact for the Future (revision 3) was released on 27 August 2014. The Co-facilitators, Germany and Namibia, proposed to place it under ‘silence procedure’ until Tuesday 3rd September. This meant that without objections, the text was declared adopted. Currently, there isn’t enough publicly available information to know whether it happened.
