WHY THE NEWLY-ADOPTED PACT FOR THE FUTURE IS A ‘HUGE DEFEAT FOR THE UN’

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▪️ Russia has also promised to distance itself from the consensus on the provisions on the participation of non-governmental organizations in the work of the UN and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Moscow has long shed light on how Western-funded NGOs are tasked with promoting a globalist liberal agenda abroad.

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🧵WHY THE NEWLY-ADOPTED PACT FOR THE FUTURE IS A ‘HUGE DEFEAT FOR THE UN’

The Pact for the Future pushed through by the United Nations General Assembly on September 22 has been branded as a “huge defeat for the UN” by Russia. Moscow had advised against adopting the “non-consensual text” and urged further negotiations.

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What are Russia’s concerns?

▪️ Russia warned that without its amendment to the pact’s text, it would “distance itself from the consensus on this document.”

Specifically, this pertains to the Global Digital Compact (containing an agreement on a roadmap for global AI governance through the establishment of an AI Scientific Panel) and the provisions on disarmament, where the pact underscores recommitment to “the goal of the total elimination of nuclear weapons” and expresses “serious concern at the increasing number of actions that are contrary to existing international norms and non-compliance with obligations in the field of disarmament, arms control, and non-proliferation.”