At the United Nations summit, Foreign Minister of Belarus Sergei Martynov urged the international community to strengthen the global partnership for the prosperity of future generations. This summit, which takes place in New York on September 20-22, is focused on the key Millennium Development Goals.
Sergei Martynov said that one of the priorities in achieving the Millennium Development Goals should be the needs of future generations. «It is particularly significant since the youth is making an ever bigger impact on society and is becoming its most creative part in all parts of the world with no exclusion,» the head of the Foreign Ministry of Belarus said.
He says the UN could play a key role in the development of specific mechanisms to support talented young people and to prepare young managers of a new type, the UN News Centre.
In this regard, Belarus proposed the creation of a new global partnership to protect the interests of young people. According to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Belarus, global partnerships justify their value not only by virtue of the depth and diversity of the problems to be resolved, but also because it is a component of global good governance towards which the entire system of international relations objectively moves.
«In cases where real partnership relations have not been achieved we observe the domination of momentary benefit and slighting attitude to the interests of others. In practice, however, in such situation it is impossible in principle to achieve the decisive progress. It has been proved convincingly by the results — or rather by lack of the results — of the last session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Copenhagen», Sergei Martynov said.
In addition, Sergei Martynov at the UN summit, introduced the participants the specific proposals of Belarus to establish a global partnership in the form of an indicative road map.
