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China's Position Paper on UN Reforms (full text)
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-06-08 11:35
1. Poverty
To eliminate poverty, an urgent
priority is to facilitate the implementation of the MDGs. This should become the
focus of UN reforms and the September summit.
We should steer
globalization toward balanced development, and strengthen developing countries'
position for equal participation and decision-making in international affairs.
China supports developing countries' efforts to promptly formulate and
implement comprehensive national strategies in light of their own national
conditions for the realization of MDGs. The international community should
provide necessary assistance to support these efforts.
International
development assistance should be provided in a way that takes into full
consideration the national conditions of developing countries, and increases the
recipient countries' autonomy and participation in this process for better
results.
China is in favor of the Secretary-General's recommendations of
a timetable for increasing Official Development Assistance (ODA) to 0.7 percent
of national GDP, and believes that it is necessary to draw detailed
implementation plans and set up a monitoring and assessing mechanism.
China supports international efforts to explore innovative resources as
a useful supplement to ODA, which should continues to play a major role.
We shall reform and improve the international financial system to make
it consistent with the principle of equality and mutual benefit, and monitor,
and guide rational flows of international capital to fend off financial crises.
We should establish and improve an open and fair multilateral trading
system, based on full consideration of the interests of developing and new
members, and eliminate agricultural subsidies and substantially reduce tariff
and non-tariff trade barriers as soon as possible in accordance with the mandate
provided by the Doha Declaration.
The Chinese side supports efforts to
promote an agreement on the modality of negotiations at the 6th WTO Ministerial
Conference in Hong Kong in accordance with the July 2004 approximation and the
mandate provided by the Doha Declaration, with a view to achieving an early
completion of the Doha round and making it a genuine "development
round".
The developed countries should reduce and forgive, in real
earnest, debts owed to them by developing countries, so that more capital will
be available for development.
We should encourage and strengthen
public-private partnerships and mobilize more resources to promote economic
growth and eliminate poverty.
China supports to strengthen South-South
cooperation, including sharing experience, expanding areas of cooperation and
mutual assistance for mutual benefit, in order to enhance capacity building for
development.
2. Disease
All countries should
promptly implement the UN resolutions 58/3 and 59/27 related to "enhancing
capacity-building in global public health", put public health development in the
context of their own development plans and activities, establish scientific and
standardized public health systems, and improve the monitoring, prevention,
control, treatment and reporting networks for contagious diseases. The developed
world should help the developing countries in this regard.
Relevant
agencies operating within the UN system should consider incorporating public
health into their activities, programs and plans, give greater support to all
countries in strengthening public health capacity and promote international
cooperation.
We should strengthen the guiding and coordinating role of
the World Health Organization and other relevant international organizations in
disease prevention and treatment. China is in favor of more resources being
channeled for the WHO Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network.
We
should make further efforts to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS. The immediate
priority is to speed up the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on
HIV/AIDS within the existing cooperation framework. The developed countries
shall honor their commitments through the provision of more financial and
technical support to the developing countries in the prevention and treatment of
HIV/AIDS.
Currently there is no universally recognized standards to
define whether contagious diseases pose a threat to international peace and
security. Given that the Security Council's main function is to deal with issues
that pose grave threats to international peace and security, it is unadvisable
for it to repeat the work of other agencies.
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