United Nations Reforms
Panel Appointed
SECRETARY-GENERAL NAMES HIGH-LEVEL PANEL
TO STUDY GLOBAL SECURITY AND REFORM OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today
named Anand Panyarachun, former Prime Minister of Thailand, to chair the
High-Level Panel on global security threats and reform of the international
system, which he had announced in his speech to the General Assembly on 23
September (http://www.un.org/webcast/ga/58/statements/sg2eng030923.htm).
Mr. Annan announced the membership of
the 16-member
Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change in a letter dated 3 November addressed
to the President of the General Assembly, Mr. Julian Robert Hunte (Saint Lucia).
He recalled that the Panel is "tasked with examining the major threats and
challenges the world faces in the broad field of peace and security, including
economic and social issues insofar as they relate to peace and
security, and making recommendations for the elements of a collective response".
The other 15 members of the Panel are:
* Robert Badinter (France), Member of the French Senate and former Minister of
Justice of France;
* Joćo Clemente Baena Soares (Brazil), former Secretary-General of the
Organization of American States;
* Gro Harlem Brundtland (Norway), former Prime Minister of Norway and former
Director-General of the World Health Organization;
* Mary Chinery-Hesse (Ghana),
Vice-Chairman, National Development Planning Commission of Ghana and former
Deputy Director-General, International Labour Organization;
* Gareth Evans (Australia), President of the International Crisis Group and
former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Australia;
* David Hannay (United Kingdom), former
Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and United
Kingdom Special Envoy to Cyprus;
* Enrique Iglesias (Uruguay), President of the Inter-American Development Bank;
* Amre Moussa (Egypt),
Secretary-General of the League of Arab States;
* Satish Nambiar (India), former Lt.
General in the Indian Army and Force Commander of UNPROFOR;
* Sadako Ogata (Japan), former United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees;
* Yevgeny Primakov (Russia), former
Prime Minister of the Russian Federation;
* Qian Qichen (China), former Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign
Affairs of the People's Republic of China;
* Nafis Sadiq (Pakistan), former
Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund;
* Salim Ahmed Salim (United Republic of
Tanzania), former Secretary-General of the Organization of African
Unity; and
* Brent Scowcroft (United States),
former Lt. General in the United States Air Force and United States National
Security Adviser.
Terms of Reference
1.The past year has shaken the foundations of collective security and
undermined confidence in the possibility of collective responses to our common
problems and challenges. It has also brought to the fore deep divergences of
opinion on the range and nature of the challenges we face, and are likely to
face in the future.
2. The aim of the High-Level Panel is to recommend clear and practical measures
for ensuring effective collective action, based upon a rigorous analysis of
future threats to peace and security, an appraisal of the
contribution collection action can make, and a thorough assessment of existing
approaches, instruments and mechanisms, including the principal organs of the
United Nations.
3. The Panel is not being asked to
formulate policies on specific issues, nor on the UN's role in specific places.
Rather, it is being asked to provide a new assessment of the challenges ahead,
and to recommend the
changes which will be required if these challenges are to be met effectively
through collective action.
4. Specifically, the Panel will:
a. Examine today's global threats and
provide an analysis of future challenges to international peace and security.
Whilst there may continue to exist a diversity of perception on the relative
importance of the various
threats facing particular Member States on an individual basis, it is important
to find an appropriate balance at a global level. It is also important to
understand the connections between different threats.
b. Identify clearly the contribution that collective action can make in
addressing these challenges.
c. Recommend the changes necessary to ensure effective collective action,
including but not limited to a review of the principal organs of the United
Nations.
5. The Panel's work is confined to the field of peace and security, broadly
interpreted. That is, it should extend its analysis and recommendations to other
issues and institutions, including economic and social, to the extent that they
have a direct bearing on future threats to peace and security.
Link here for panel member biographies
and more information:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocusRel.asp?infocusID=84&Body=nnn&Body1
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