Transnational crime, pandemics, and climate change were three defining challenges, and as the nature of such threats continued to evolve, the Security Council — so central to our ability to keep the peace — must also keep pace, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Council today as it addressed new challenges to international peace and security and conflict prevention.
He said that although none of the three were new, they were increasingly transnational, increasingly acute, and had ever greater implications for human, State, regional and international security. There was an increasing convergence between organized crime and terrorist groups. Climate change had aggravated conflict over scarce land and could well trigger large-scale migration. Rising sea levels put at risk the very survival of small island States.
No country and no region, no matter how powerful, would be able to address those threats alone, he said. The complex and multilayered threats required multidisciplinary responses. The United Nations was well-placed to promote an integrated mix of political, developmental and capacity-building responses.
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