The document was approved unanimously at a UN General Assembly meeting on Wednesday, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
Proposed by Poland, the resolution has been inspired by the Polish-led Three Seas Initiative, which aims to boost infrastructure, energy and business ties among 12 countries between the Baltic, Black and Adriatic Seas, officials said.
'Negotiating success for Poland': UN envoy
The Polish ambassador to the UN, Krzysztof Szczerski, hailed Wednesday’s vote as “a negotiating success for Poland.”
He told reporters: “Successful negotiations by Poland have facilitated the drafting and adoption of a text that will form the basis document as well as an inspiration for action by UN institutions and agencies, international financial institutions such as the World Bank and member states.”
Entitled Building global resilience and promoting sustainable development through regional and interregional infrastructure connectivity, the resolution stresses the link between development and security, according to Polish officials.
It says that new "energy, transport and telecommunications ties" are necessary to boost the resilience of nations and regions to crises caused by armed conflicts, natural disasters or pandemics, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, which “undermined global supply chains,” the PAP news agency reported.
According to Szczerski, “the universal nature of this problem” helped convince all UN countries to back the resolution.
The document has been inspired by the Three Seas Initiative, which brings together Poland, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia “in various shared infrastructure projects,” reporters were told.
“This formula can be successfully implemented in other regions of the world, helping achieve socioeconomic development,” Polish officials said.
The resolution on “building global resilience through infrastructure connectivity” will represent “Poland’s significant contribution to UN work on socioeconomic development,” according to Polish diplomats.
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Source: PAP, UN, niezalezna.pl