Asia-Africa Partnership:
“The UN system has its wealth of expertise and experiences which can be harnessed to support the stakeholder-driven activities of the Asian-African partnership. As an incubator of ideas and initiatives, the UN system, with improved coordination and re-orientation of priorities to better serve stakeholders’ interests, can help facilitate the exchange of experiences and best practices that can serve as force-multipliers for effective implementation of cooperation activities.”

“I see the Asian-African Partnership as an important building block for an effective multilateral system. Indeed, Asia and Africa have a special stake in promoting peace and development, and in ensuring that the UN can deliver on these two shared goals. Thus, the Asian-African Partnership will need to have as one of its primary focus effective reform of the United Nations.”

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