Advancing global peace and security as well as sustainable development definitely requires the world to connect the dots across continents and refrain from linking them where pointless. World leaders have to promise to leave no country behind, with a particular reference to Africa and other developing camps of the globe, as ensuring peace and security as well as development should not be left solely to some.
The world has now been mystified as a result of the lack of an all-encompassing security system and reasonably balanced growth. Instead of being susceptible to security hegemony cascaded from merely some nations, the world has now required an inclusive and sustainable security system to be a fairer home to all. Unilateral sections and getting states marginalized taking wealth status and democratic moves for granted should break somewhere, too.
Heads of States and Governments convened in New York to assess the implementation of sustainable development goals and provide high level political guidance on transformative and accelerated actions including peace and security concerns.
Yes, the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly marked a crucial milestone in the journey towards achieving the 2030 Agenda and the urgent need to put the Sustainable Development Goals back on track.
The world security order was one of the issues of the day. Security architecture and peace order is instrumental in addressing grave regional and global problems and producing considerable security benefits for all member states and beyond. Hence, the world security and development order has to be inclusive thereby respecting the sovereignty of all nations coming out of the box of being a viable weapon to favor finger counted developed nations.
All nations need to rebuild the global security order and prepare for a world of ease in the long run. It is also well recognized and widely witnessed these days that many countries, citizens and companies across the globe have been inadvertent victims of all sorts of conflicts. Here, an inclusive as well as dependable security system should prevail so as to well address all security concerns.
Unequivocally, the comprehensive and partaking concept at the heart of the global peace order balances politico-military questions with democracy, human rights, and the rule of law alongside the economic and environmental dimensions of security. Hence, the progressive consolidation of the world security order and the effective advancement of the sovereignty of nations would open the pathway to treatment equilibrium. A rebalancing of political authority for shared security decision-making with more weight given to the views of world security strata has thus to be quite inclusive and participatory.
Many countries are still of the firm conviction that the comprehensive concept of security is the appropriate pathway, comprehensive strategy and lucrative system to attractively address major security issues across the globe.
Yes, bringing together as many countries as possible around that concept is the correct objective for diplomacy and a matter of urgency towards creating an inclusive security and development system. In doing so, it would be possible to accelerate the agility of creating a safe and just world.
In sum, as predicaments and interconnectedness in the context of ensuring peace and security exist in more structural and less broadly understood ways, moving from a narrowly some nations centric perspective to a wider context incorporating the spirit of the sovereignty and autonomy of all nations is taken as a timely global call. The pursuit of order and some form of universalism must occur through the embrace rather than the rebuff of complexity as the security dynamics in the international system plays a pivotal role in fuelling lasting peace and sustainable growth at global level.
THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD TUESDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2023
