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Article

12 Aug 2011

Author:
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Secretary-General Says United Nations Needs to ‘Think Big’ About How Best to Address Challenges, Deliver Tangible Results That Make a Difference

[S]ustainable development is at the top of my list of priorities. That includes but is not limited to our work for the Millennium Development Goals. It means doing more for disaster risk reduction and averting crises brought on by climate change and by water, food and energy insecurity...Global and regional security and democratization challenges will also feature prominently on the agenda going forward...And we continue to press for gains on human rights and the responsibility to protect...If there is one lesson I have drawn over the past five years, it is the power of partnership. Governments, non-governmental organization, the private sector, philanthropies, the academic community — all pulling together in common cause...The power of partnership makes me hopeful for what we can achieve over the next five years in our work for human security and human dignity. We must use this approach, this great potential, to take international cooperation to deeper levels — to reach what I have spoken of as a new multilateralism.