  {"id":289957,"date":"2025-10-09T12:06:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/80\/?p=289957"},"modified":"2025-10-09T12:06:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:06:19","slug":"pga-remarks-at-the-opening-of-the-5th-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/80\/2025\/10\/09\/pga-remarks-at-the-opening-of-the-5th-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Remarks at the Opening of the 5th Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">Remarks by the President of the General Assembly,<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">H.E. Ms. Annalena Baerbock<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">Opening of the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary Committee)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">9 October 2025, 10 AM<\/p>\n<p>[As Delivered]<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">Good morning everybody,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\"><br \/>\nYour Excellency Ms. Zsuzsanna Horv\u00e1th, Permanent Representative of Hungary, and Chair of the Fifth Committee,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\"><br \/>\nUnder-Secretary-General Ms. Catherine Pollard,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\"><br \/>\nExcellencies,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\"><br \/>\nDistinguished guests,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">Allow me to begin with warm congratulations to the Chair and the members of the bureau on their election.<\/p>\n<p>And by wishing you every success as they assume these important responsibilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">The work of the Fifth Committee is central to the effective functioning of our organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">It is here that decisions are taken on funding, on management, and on human resource policy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">Even in normal times, this Committee carries a special responsibility: ensuring that the United Nations has the resources it needs to operate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">That responsibility takes on greater urgency today, in an era of budgetary constraint.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">However, as I said at the General Debate: this is not an ordinary session.<\/p>\n<p>Our house of dialogue and diplomacy needs a renovation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">Our house is also under heavy pressure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">We are literally at a crossroads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">A make-or-break moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">Politically and financially.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">This is why the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ80 initiative\u2014and the wider reform process\u2014are not luxuries but necessities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">We have to deliver a United Nations that is agile, cost-effective, and fit for purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">The program budget before you includes the revised estimates linked to this initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">These proposed budgets are a critical first step in advancing the goals of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ80 initiative, to revive the efficiency and credibility of this institution.<\/p>\n<p>I encourage all delegations to approach the Committee\u2019s deliberations, as well as the wider processes of the 80th session, in a constructive manner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">I also remind you of the commitments made in the resolution on General Assembly revitalization: to review working methods during this session and to submit concrete proposals to the General Committee on how to make our work more efficient and effective.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\"><br \/>\nI have likewise encouraged the other thematic committees to think carefully before simply repeating resolutions and working methods of the past.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, we should ask ourselves each time: does this paragraph still make sense in our times? Or do we have more efficient methods and technologies?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">Drafting resolutions is not just a copy and paste exercise.<\/p>\n<p>We have to ask ourselves especially if we call for another SG report &#8211; when so many are not even funded &#8211; if we need another one, which will not be funded and therefore implemented in the end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">Excellencies<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">On the other hand, I would like to strongly underline that this is not only an exercise in cutting costs, but an exercise in doing better, together.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for this reform is to make our organization fit for the future, fit for purpose.<\/p>\n<p>And the purpose is clear.<\/p>\n<p>It is defined in our charter: serving humanity by delivering on peace and security.<\/p>\n<p>And also delivering on sustainable development, human rights, and justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">As they are highly interlinked.<\/p>\n<p>Without delivering on the 2030 Agenda on the SDGS, lasting peace will never be reached.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">So amid all the discussions\u2014and even disputes\u2014over commas, numbers, and cuts, let us not lose sight of our larger responsibility, especially in this committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">For those of us \u2013 and I hope all of us &#8211; who believe in the Charter, or like myself have sworn the oath to our Charter, our duty goes in these times and days beyond finalizing the budget.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">It is to ensure that the budget, first and foremost, serves always the Charter, our principles, and makes the work of our United Nations possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">If we are saying that we are at a crossroads, this is now the moment to take the right decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">To do otherwise \u2013 to cut just for cutting sake with not considering the results of some of the cuts \u2013 that would also mean shredding the very principles and functions of this Organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">Excellencies,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">As we also know, the financial health of the Organization goes beyond the 2026 budget.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">The liquidity crisis has been years in the making.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">A sustainable solution requires the aforementioned reforms and budget adjustments; but it also requires that Member States meet their obligations in full, on time, and without conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">When contributions are delayed or withheld, the United Nations is weakened and risks paralysis &#8211; it cannot deliver on its principles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">With practical and sometimes dramatic consequences on the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">We can see it with our own technique here in the room; but the consequences around the world are even heavier.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\"><br \/>\nSo cutting funds to the World Food Program means people quite literally go hungry to bed, or people starve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">Halving the budget of a peacekeeping mission can imperil the mission itself, fueling the risk of renewed conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">In the end it all comes down to this: we either make it together or we suffer alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">The good, thing, the Fifth Committee\u2019s long tradition of consensus is the embodiment of the theme of this Session: Better Together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">Your ability to reach across the aisle and find common ground is a testament to your dedication and leads to strong and lasting results.<\/p>\n<p>This is the heart of diplomacy, this is the heart of compromises, and consensus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">We all know this Session will not be easy.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an extraordinary session.<\/p>\n<p>But I encourage you to redouble your commitment to this tradition of finding compromises.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">To show that the world wants to see that the United Nations is still capable of reforming itself. That the United Nations is possible of working together. Of delivering results, even in the most difficult circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">So, no pressure, even though the whole world is watching.<\/p>\n<p>But yes, we have to finalize the budget, in the remaining last weeks \u2013 and it\u2019s still some months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">I wish you the very best as you hit the ground running and encourage you to make the most of each day of this session, especially now in autumn fall season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">I remain at your disposal to support you at any time, and of any help, if you need.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">Not only to reach hard-won consensus, but also for the sake of finishing in time, so everybody could also enjoy your December holidays!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remarks by the President of the General Assembly, H.E. 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