EU Statement – UN General Assembly: Informal meeting on Taking Stock of the Pact for the Future

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Mr Chair, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union and its Member States.

The EU and its Member States remain committed to implementing the Pact for the Future, together with the Global Digital Compact and the Declaration on Future Generations as the complexities of contemporary global challenges demand a more agile, inclusive, and effective multilateral architecture. The Pact is a shared instrument that can help reinvigorate the multilateral system, make the UN more fit for purpose, advance the SDGs, reform the international financial architecture, strengthen the peacebuilding architecture through the implementation of the 2025 Peacebuilding Architecture Review and address cross-cutting issues such as human rights, gender, and climate.

The Pact remains a valuable agreement to modernise the multilateral system and rebuild trust. We should sustain momentum for the Pact's implementation - even against the backdrop of UN budgetary constraints and geopolitical tensions - and its link to UN80, including under the leadership of a new UN Secretary-General. The Pact and the UN80 exercise are actually two sides of the same coin. And we need ambition on both strands to respond to the existential challenges facing the UN today.

In this context, the Pact's commitments on means of implementation and global governance reform are particularly important.

Mr. Chair

Accelerating the implementation of the SDGs, as committed to in the Pact, should be a priority. All have to contribute. The primary responsibility for implementation lies with national governments. But reform of the international financial architecture can also help close the SDG financing gap, and support more effective development outcomes on the ground. The EU's main contribution to implementing the SDGs beyond our borders is the Global Gateway strategy, that we are scaling up. Through over 150 Team Europe initiatives all over the world, the EU coordinates and combines resources for the greatest impact.

We stand ready to contribute to and monitor implementation of the Pact including through relevant UN forums, and prepare for the 2028 UN Stocktaking Summit.

I thank you.