Jamaica and the Kingdom of the Netherlands are spearheading negotiations on a UN Declaration on Future Generations, which will be annexed to an action-oriented outcome document called the ‘Pact for the Future.’
UN Member States are expected to sign off on the Pact during the Summit of the Future which will precede the 79th session of the UN General Assembly in September. According to Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, the Summit of the Future will accelerate efforts to meet existing international commitments and take concrete steps to respond to emerging challenges and opportunities.
“Leaders will discuss achieving sustainable development in spite of the many challenges that face our world. Jamaica will be participating and advocating in particular on the challenges faced by Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and other developing countries, issues including climate change, climate financing and financing for development,” Senator Johnson Smith pointed out.
Several young people were brought together for a discussion on the future they want to see at a National Youth Dialogue on the Summit of the Future on August 16 at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston and online. It was organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, the Ministry of Education and Youth, and the United Nations (UN) in Jamaica.
According to the Jamaica Information Service, the event provided an opportunity for students and youth leaders, including persons in rural communities, across the Diaspora as well as those with disabilities, to engage with policy and decision makers from the Government and UN system, to help craft and present their vision for the future to national and global leaders.
Johnson Smith, in her address, said the partners are “pleased that we’ve been able to create this opportunity to listen to the voices of our young people – voices of the present and indeed voices of the future.”
She said that the UN recognises that young people must play a more active role in helping to create the world in which “we all live” and to make it better to overcome complex crises.
“I think it bears emphasis that your participation, your perspectives are needed more than ever on progress and achievement of the Agenda 2030 for sustainable development in achieving in short, our Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),” Senator Johnson Smith said.
Christians were recently called upon to pray as world leaders prepare to come together for the 79th General Assembly which will be a major step in the march towards one-world control.
In the inaugural lecture to mark the Freedom Come Rain Newspaper fourth anniversary recently, publisher and senior pastor at the Tarrant Baptist Church, Apostle Jeffrey Shuttleworth noted the significance of this particular UN Assembly as the countries gather to sign a pact for the future.
“They are saying that the outcome of the pact for the future will be a world and an international system that is better prepared to manage the challenges we now face. They are saying also that the pact for the future is likely to be another part of the shift to what they describe as a world governed by unelected internationalist politicians,” the pastor explained during the lecture which was titled “Signs of the End Times”.
Apostle Shuttleworth pointed to Claus Schwab, for example, who was never elected and would likely not enter a political election, but because of his wealth, is able to influence those who are elected by the people. Persons like Schwab,who is the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, can invite world leaders to meetings behind closed doors and make them glowing promises to embrace particular agendas.
“UN member states are likely to vote to radically alter the UN and this is very important because for the first time, if this vote goes through, the UN will have power [teeth] to act and they are looking at reshaping the UN into what is called UN 2.0. The UN would now be in a position they say to influence the way nation states make decisions regarding the future of the planet, so the stage as you can see is being set for a one world order,” Apostle Shuttleworth noted.
Senator Johnson-Smith said it has been an absolute honour for Jamaica to co-facilitate the intergovernmental process for the Declaration on Future Generations,” she added.
