UN Systems Reforms:Peace, Security Focus Attention

Cameroon yesterday in New York endorsed decisions at a high-level meeting ahead of today’s official opening of the 72nd UN General Assembly.

Cameroon has joined other countries across the globe to endorse peace and security reforms piloted by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres for the optimal functioning of the entire systems of the United Nations. Taking part in the ongoing 72nd UN Ordinary General Assembly here in New York, President Paul Biya made Cameroon’s position known through the Minister of External Relations, Lejeune Mbella Mbella and the Minister, Director of Civil Cabinet at the Presidency of the Republic, Martin Belinga Eboutou. The two Ministers, accompanying the Head of State in the New York conclave, represented him in a high-level meeting yesterday September 18, 2019 at the UN headquarters. “Reforming the United Nations: Management, Security and Development,” as yesterday’s high-level conclave was christened, was to examine reforms on the UN Systems during which States equally took a political stance in support of the UN Secretary General’s wide-ranging plans to give the organisation better output.
The political stance, piloted by the US President Donald Trump, is to support Antonio Guterres in making concrete changes in the United Nations System to better align to work on humanitarian response, development and sustaining peace initiatives. In his speech during the meeting,  Mr Trump urged the UN to focus more on people than bureaucracy.
It is worth noting that the first managerial move Mr. Guterres took was reconfiguring his own office to place more emphasis on strategic integration and better coordination for efficient decision-making. He now needs available support to engage other reforms notably a review of the Peace and Security Architecture, the development and management systems, the counter-terrorism system, the least of which is not the UN response to sexual exploitation and abuses committed by its personnel likewise gender parity within the organisation.
Cameroon’s support for the reforms...