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From COVID-19 vaccines to climate change and disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, global crises show how deeply interconnected countries are. Melissa Fleming, UN Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications (@melissarfleming), explains why international cooperation remains essential in an increasingly divided world.
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00:00the question now is multilateral system right does it still deliver do you still believe it delivers
00:06meaningful result when major powers are increasingly at odds and some of these
00:12governments are also facing domestic pressures at home what do you make of this well you know
00:19there are many member states who go at certain problems alone but in the end they always come
00:28back to the un i mean take the example of covert 19. how many countries who had first access to
00:36the
00:36vaccine uh determined that this vaccine was only going to be for their country well how did how
00:42much did that help in a global pandemic that knows no borders and really what the lessons learned
00:50became even in those countries was we actually if we have access to a vaccine in future we have to
00:56make sure everyone has access because nobody is safe until everyone is safe and it really is almost
01:05it's the same with with climate change i mean you can you know shore up your defenses against climate
01:11change or you can you can also um you know make the transition to renewable energy but you're still
01:18going to be hit um if you don't help other countries to make that transition too if we don't as
01:25a global
01:26community um work to reduce the temperatures to below 1.5 degrees because it just doesn't work in one
01:35country so there's so many example look at the ripple effect of the war in iran um it is the
01:42closure of the
01:42strait of hormuz is hitting almost every single country in this world uh not just in in fuel prices
01:49but also um in the missing uh fertilizer that is is is creating a potential a global food crisis we
01:59had
01:59a similar issue with um with the war in ukraine so it's it's very interesting to see that in the
02:05end
02:05everyone comes back to the u.n both uh to you know usually it's first please go help uh the
02:12suffering of
02:13of the populations sometimes it's for mediation um and and often it is um you know to work
02:22on uh creating the solutions offering the blueprints for the way uh the way out and for the next chapter

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