By Johnathan Paoli
President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to represent South Africa at the United Nations Secretary-General’s flagship High-Level Summit of the Future that starts in New York on Sunday.
It aims to culminate in the adoption of a Pact for the Future (PFTF), reflecting a commitment to collective action on global challenges.
The opening segment of the two-day event will be followed by plenary meetings and interactive dialogues.
Formation of the PFTF follows months of negotiations under the leadership of permanent representatives from Germany, Namibia, Netherlands, Jamaica, Sweden and Zambia.
Philémon Yang, who recently took over as president of the seventy-ninth General Assembly, has described the pact as an opportunity for the international community to forge a new global consensus that will actively seek to transform and scale-up existing commitments to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
“The summit has an important role to play in reaffirming the Charter
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