2023-06-23 10:01:41
« Fight against poverty and protection of the planet”, no choice, argues Macron)
Initiative of the Elysée, the summit for a new global financial pact has been held since Thursday June 22 and will end today Friday June 23, 2023, at the Palais Brongniart, in Paris. High-level international meeting which will define the priorities for action between stakeholders in the coming years, Patrice Talon takes part after a detour to Abidjan where with Alassane Ouattara, he discussed economic, security and development issues in UEMOA and expresses its wish to see the commitments at the end of the Paris summit respected and each party playing its part.
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“No country should have to choose” between the fight against poverty and the protection of the planet, claimed Emmanuel Macron, yesterday Thursday at the launch of the summit for a new global financial pact. “We have to take on a shock of public financing” and “need a lot more private financing”, believes the French President. It was in front of fifty heads of state and government, international organizations, NGOs and other participants. This summit, which is part of the United Nations’ approach to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and supports the implementation of the commitments of the Paris agreements on climate (2015) and Kunming-Montreal on biodiversity (2022) , aims to obtain new financial commitments for international solidarity. According to the organizers, “the major challenges – fight against inequalities, climate change, protection of biodiversity – which we are facing today, force us to change scale and to conceive our international solidarity differently”. This calls for synergy of action between stakeholders. To achieve this, it must make it possible to identify the guidelines for the work of the coming years: new sources of financing, innovative mechanisms, means of better leveraging financing by multilateral institutions, etc. The definition of collective objectives will make it possible to obtain results. in the context of future international negotiations (G20, SDG summit, climate and biodiversity COP, etc.). As part of the summit, Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), announced the achievement of the objective of mobilizing 100 billion dollars through the reallocation of special drawing rights, for the benefit of the most vulnerable populations. vulnerable. This additional fund will help fight poverty and build resilience and sustainability by using IMF instruments in this area. Taking part in this summit, the Head of State of Benin, Patrice Talon expressed his wish to see the commitment respected. It was on Wednesday during a working visit with his Ivorian counterpart, Alassane Ouattara.
“We need to have access to more massive resources”, says Patrice Talon
Visiting his Ivorian counterpart before going to take part in this summit, Patrice Talon expressed his expectation to see the commitments respected. “We need to have access to more massive resources,” said the Beninese president. Therefore, this new financial pact should make it possible to move the lines. Moreover, in his reflections, he has always been hostile to development aid and believes that African countries deserve better. “The question of financing is not new and the requirements of the African financial market inevitably plunge us into global financing advice. We need access to more massive resources. And the various current mechanisms are no longer sufficient to provide us with appropriate financing solutions. While we are confronted with the problems of infrastructure development, the strengthening of human capital, we are also like the large countries confronted with climate change, with investments likely to preserve the environment. And so we imagine how many, while we cannot escape. Understand therefore all the interest for us that this kind of summit is held and that there is really a will. Because this summit of the genre, the commitments, we have already seen. If the one who is coming and the next ones can bring each other to be more involved in concrete things, that would be good. This is our hope,” said Patrice Talon during the press briefing following his working visit to Abidjan. Speaking of the points of discussion with the Ivorian President, Patrice Talon underlined that the exchanges focused on the summit and on the points of view of the WAEMU countries which will be presented and defended. Added to this point are security and development funding. “It is always with honor and happiness that I come here to Côte d’Ivoire. This opportunity once again gives me this pleasure and this honor, all the more so since we are in a phase of concern, so to come and see the President to discuss the common concerns concerning security in the sub-region, the various elections that our countries are addressing these times, as well as the question of financing, of development. We have a summit in Paris starting tomorrow. It was a good opportunity for me to come and discuss with President Ouattara…discuss this summit, discuss the points of view that are ours and we will have to present and defend in the round tables at the summit”. continued Patrice Talon. As for President Alassane Ouattara, he said that it is an honor to receive his counterpart and he testified: “It is a pleasure, a great honor to have the President of Benin, Patrice Talon, who came to see us to a working visit”, he rejoiced. He returned to the topics of interest discussed and underlined that together, they will not fail to play their part.
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