Madame Chair,<\/p>\n
Excellencies and colleagues,<\/p>\n
Italy aligns itself with the statement delivered by the European Union and would like to add the following remarks in national capacity.<\/p>\n
We congratulate you, madame Ambassador Suela Janina, on your appointment as Chair of Second Committee, and confirm full support to you and the Bureau.<\/p>\n
Italy strongly believes in international cooperation based on trust and mutual respect to achieve tangible results and stands ready to engage constructively in this Committee, in line with the on-going revitalization efforts and the UN80 initiative.<\/p>\n
This year we will focus on three main topics:<\/p>\n
First, collaboration with Countries in Special Situations. LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS should be the first beneficiaries of development cooperation programs. This is why we give them special attention through our \u201cMattei Plan for Africa\u201d, a Partnership established with 18 African countries, including 9 LDCs and 3 LLDCs. Likewise, we have a solid and long-standing cooperation with SIDS, including our Partnership with the Pacific Islands and the CARICOM.<\/p>\n
Second, effective, accountable and transparent institutions. Last June – together with UNDESA and IDLO \u2013 we convened in New York an international conference to reiterate our commitment to SDG16 as the overarching enabler or the \u201coperational system\u201d of the 2030 Agenda, as the UNDP Administrator put it.<\/p>\n
Third, food security. Our commitment to food security is a defining feature of our international and multilateral action. The current crisis landscape presents new challenges that require decisive action and shared efforts: this is why we launched the \u201cRome Coalition for fertilizer access and food security<\/em>\u201d, which held its second meeting here in New York during the High Level Week. We will keep playing our part alongside all partners and the UN Food Agencies based in Rome \u2013 FAO, IFAD and WFP \u2013 to make sure that countering hunger and malnutrition remains at the top of the international cooperation agenda.<\/p>\n None of this goals could be achieved without strong and equal\u00a0 partnerships, built on national ownership and private sector involvement.<\/p>\n As a concrete example of effective peer-to-peer partnership, just a few days ago, Italy and Nigeria co-hosted the \u201cMultiply Possibility\u201d High-Level Event for the replenishment of the Global Partnership for Education. We doubled our contribution and the replenishment campaign was a great success, mobilizing additional US$3.5 billion in international resources, while partner countries committed almost US$470 billion in domestic financing for education. These results will help transform the lives of millions of children in nearly 90 partner countries.<\/p>\n Madame Chair, Building on these premises, Italy stands ready to play its part in addressing all the issues before this esteemed Committee.<\/p>\n I thank you all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madame Chair, Excellencies and colleagues, Italy aligns itself with the statement delivered by the European Union and would like to add the following remarks in national capacity. We congratulate you, madame Ambassador Suela Janina, on your appointment as Chair of Second Committee, and confirm full support to you and the Bureau. Italy strongly believes in […]","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13848,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13840\/revisions\/13848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}