UN General Assembly
2021

As I said two years ago (see A/74/PV.9), this is not science fiction. We heard the Secretary-General make the same comment on Tuesday morning, “[t]his is not science fiction; this is our reality today.” (A/76/PV.3, p. 4) If the truth be told, the Secretary-General’s speech said it all, but who will stand here and support him to give him and our institutions — whether the World Health Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the regional development banks or the relevant development institutions — the mandate to go forward if we continue to refuse to summon the political will to confront what we know we must confront?