UN's 'Pact for the Future' full of empty promises, will be 'cudgel' to attack the United States, expert warns

A U.N. expert argued that the organization has not established itself as a reliable body that can tackle the issues it has raised at the scale or intensity required.

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"He should instead be calling for reassessment, retrenchment, and refocus," argued Schaefer, who served on the U.N.’s Committee on Contributions between 2019 and 2021. "The international response to COVID-19, for example, was highly flawed; peacekeeping is in retreat; negotiations flounder on divergent priorities; and human rights violators hold sway in the Human Rights Council and General Assembly."

The Summit for the Future will take place ahead of the High-Level week at the United Nations General Assembly. Schaefer argued that U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres worked toward this summit over the past three years through his annual reports, which focused on climate and pollution issues.