The
report of the Commission on Global Governance, Our Global
Neighbourhood, was a contribution to the discussion on global reform prompted by the
fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations in 1995. We are now pleased to offer this
contribution to the discussion occasioned by the transition to a new millennium.
The
United Nations Secretary-General, Mr Kofi Annan, in proposing a Millennium Assembly with a Summit segment to be
held in the year 2000, has invited leaders and governments to use it to consider how the
United Nations may be equipped for the 21st century. If the new century is to be better
for humanity than the passing century has been, much will depend on the United Nations -
our principal instrument for cooperative effort on behalf of the world's people. Whether
it is to ensure peace and security, to combat poverty and hunger, ignorance and
ill-health, to safeguard basic human rights,
or to protect the habitat, we have to look to the United Nations to reinforce and unite
our separate efforts.
But
the United Nations is what the world's nations want it to be. It is they who can shape the
United Nations into being more effective, and make it better geared to deal with the
pressures of the new century.
The
Millennium Assembly is a timely opportunity to
consider what the main pressures are likely to be and how best to equip the United Nations
to respond to them. As the United Nations prepares for its millennium year events, we are
happy to put forward these ideas on behalf of the Commission on Global Governance.
This contribution is primarily the result of deliberations among
a group of Commission members at two meetings
held during the course of the year, the first in New York and the second in London.
Besides the two of us, the following colleagues took part in one or both of these
discussions: Barber Conable, I G Patel, Adele Simmons, Brian Urquhart. Other colleagues
saw the draft report and earlier material, and we have taken into account comments made by
them in preparing this final document.
Our
deliberations - and the preparation of this report - were greatly helped by two
consultants who besides undertaking research and preparing papers also helped us in the
discussions. We express our appreciation to
Edward C Luck, Executive Director of the Center for the Study of International
Organization, New York, and Dr Vincent Cable, MP, London.
We
also wish to thank the governments and foundations whose support enabled the Commission to
maintain an office and continue its work after Our Global Neighbourhood was published in
1995. Special thanks are due to the MacArthur Foundation for providing the funds that
allowed the Commission to undertake the particular work leading to this contribution. We
also thank the Ford Foundation for providing facilities for our meeting in New York.
Ingvar Carlsson
Shridath Ramphal
Stockholm
London
SOURCE: http://www.cgg.ch/ (Commission on Global Governance WebSite)
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November 1999
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