In a statement delivered via video at the general debate of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly in September, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed a Global Development Initiative to steer development around the world towards more balanced, coordinated and inclusive growth in the face of the severe shocks of COVID-19. In the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China aims to reduce inequalities, making sure that the entire social fabric is well knit toward the sustainable development goals.
Noting that China has lifted 770 million people out of abject poverty in the last four decades, Chatterjee said that "it is knowledge which we, as the United Nations system, intend to share with the rest of the developing world, that it's possible to do it."įrom his perspective, China has done well in dealing with multiple human development issues and issues around dignity, including access to education, health, etc. "The success China has cannot be underestimated under any circumstance," Chatterjee said, adding that the World Bank has said that in the last 25 years, China's push to lift people out of poverty has had a major impact on the Sustainable Development Goal 1 (SDG 1), which is about ending poverty.
With more than 25 years of experience in international cooperation, sustainable development, humanitarian coordination, and peace and security, the coordinator spoke highly of China's achievements in poverty alleviation and public-health response in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
And this is precisely the model that we want to see in the rest of the world, where the world is united by the virtue of compassion, mutual reinforcement and trust, and above all, by keeping alive the principles of multilateralism," Chatterjee said. It is now becoming an aid provider to many other countries in the world. Looking back on this history, Chatterjee said that, when the UN established its first formal presence in China, providing aid, knowledge and poverty alleviation experience, etc., China embraced it all. It decided to restore all lawful rights of the People's Republic of China in the UN and recognize the representatives of its government as the only legitimate UN representatives of China. On Oct 25, 1971, at its 26th session, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 2758 with an overwhelming majority. "I congratulate and commend China on the successes of the last 50 years," Chatterjee said in a recent interview with Xinhua, hailing China's role "as a member of the multilateral system, as a prime mover in the United Nations space." BEIJING - The 50th anniversary of the restoration of China's lawful seat in the United Nations marks a very important milestone, not just for China, but for the entire world, Siddharth Chatterjee, the UN Development System Resident Coordinator in China, has said, as the anniversary approaches.