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Gordon brown
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gordon brown june 22 zoom summit qatar/bloomberg
I want to congratulate the emir and the governor of qatar
for its success in navigating the most serious peacetime crisis- a medical and
economic crisis that has hit oil and gas, international trade, global supply
chains but throughout qatar has remained as a beacon to the world, an outward
looking globally engaged nation with the emir to his great credit stepping up
his program of aid to countries in need not least in global education
Now in 1962 in a famous speech presifdent john kennedy told
america::
It should compliment its declaration of independence with a
global declaration of interdependence -and never have there been so many global
problems from pandemics to climate change, from financial instability to the
refugee crisis, and threats to peace, medical, economic. Environmental and
social problems which are global and need global solutions. And the demand is
that the nations of the world work together.
And so in response to the stated desire of the US president
for a new era of multilateralism, I want to suggest we build back better
through rhe 4 major global forums of 2021 we build back better
Aug 2021 un ny nuceal prolieration treaty https://www.un.org/en/conferences/npt2020
Sept 2021 unga76 new york
October 2021 G20 Italy
Non 2021 cop26 Glasgow with Italy
I believe that after years of america first, china first .russia
first, india firsr and so on
We are at a turning point and we must ensure history turns
in the right direction and I believe as a world we can make decisions which
first of all halt covid in its track- we know noone is safe until anyone is
safe; and while the cost of vaccinating the whole word is in billions, the
gains from enhanced trade and ecnomic activity is in the trillions
The g7 offered one billion vaccines to the poorest
countries; the worlld needs 11 billion vaccines ;; and I hope that we can agree
over the next few months a burden-sharing plan propioed by leaders in norway
and south africa; under which the richest countries pay the cost of vaccines
for all.
And if we can meet this medical challenge then we can
obviously meet and masrer the economic challenge
I chaired the g20 in 2009 during the global financial
crisis, and I know the world is currently at risk of a 2-speed world economy: america and china going fast; the middle
east, central asia, africa and europe at half what the americans and chinese
are doing; and to avoid that we need global fiscal and monetary coordination to
ensure balanced growth, debt restructuring to enable low income countries to
recover, a renewed emphasis on sdgs to ease poverty, and synchronised
investment in infrastructures which the
imf assures would, if synchronised, add 2 trillion to economic output. Now such
an agreement is possible at the g20 and could be starting point for successful
cop26 climate summit in glasgow; prosperity to be sustained has to be shared;
we must now raise cop26 level of ambition by proposing that each of us embrace
tougher near term carbon reducaion targets; and by making good the promises to
lower income countries that we would assist their transition to green economies
Now let me also thank qatar for your role as a peacemaker in
the region and beyond not least in afghanistan; and let me say with the review
on non proliferation itreaty in august..we have the chance to halt escalation
in a nuclear arms race; when running for office biden offered support for ban on
nuclear testing, an end to the enrichement of uranium/plutonium and he has
suggested in the past that all nuclear weapon states can reduce tension by
declaring they will not ever use nuclear weapons first; and this is an offer
that would reduce the role of nuclear weapons in defense strategies and make
ourself a more peaceful world
Now not all will be changed in one year but I say to you
that a message that can go out from a forum as prestigious as this is: a new era of cooperation is on the way- we can
make our world a heathier, safer, greener and fairer place -and this is a
message that can be heard in every continent and reverberate everywhere to the
benefit of us all
Thank you
Brown host june summit on edutech with his educationcomasia.org
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