Delegates from different groupings, including policymakers, civil society, and youth organisations, share their expectations, which they hope will be reflected in the Pact of the Future and the Global Action Pact.
UN member states have adopted the Pact of the Future by consensus during the opening of the Summit of the Future.
The Pact of the Future paves the way for concrete steps to respond to emerging challenges and opportunities through an action-oriented outcome.
President Nangolo Mbumba has underscored that the future will not and cannot rest solely on well-crafted documents.
He says the true measure of success therefore lies in the effective implementation of the Pact for the Future, the Global Digital Compact, and the Declaration on Future Generations.
Former First Lady Monica Geingos says there is a need to mobilise partners to support youth-focused sexual and reproductive health and rights programmes.
Geingos and a panel of experts dissected this during a side event of the Summit of the Future at the UN headquarters on Friday.
President Nangolo Mbumba has highlighted a concern that the global systems established since 1945 continue to favour the countries that emerged victorious from World War II.
According to the President, it is time for the Summit of the Future to address and correct this longstanding imbalance.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, expressed satisfaction with Namibia’s role in co-steering with Germany in the negotiations for the Summit of the Future.
Negotiations for the Pact of the Future and the Global Compact, which will be adopted at the end of the Summit of the Future, are in their final stages.
The Pact has to be agreed upon by all UN member states by consensus.
President Nangolo Mbumba has encouraged all UN member states to reflect in earnest how they can continue to build on multilateralism.
This, as the negotiations for the Pact of the Future are underway, to be adopted at the end of the Summit of the Future, which Namibia and Germany are co-facilitating.
The United Nations is set to convene the Summit of the Future, a high-level event bringing world leaders together to forge a more appropriate consensus on global cooperation.
