PARIS, June 22 (NNN-SANEWS) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to attend and participate in the New Global Financing Pact Summit to be held in Paris, France, on June 22-23.
This at the invitation of his counterpart, the President of the Republic of France, Emmanuel Macron.
International Relations and Cooperation Minister, Dr Naledi Pandor, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana as well as senior government officials will accompany President Ramaphosa to the summit.
Under the theme, “Towards More Commitments to Meet the 2030 Agenda?” the Summit aims to build a new contract between the North and the South, to facilitate access to financing by the vulnerable countries.
The summit builds on previous and ongoing work, which includes the Review of the Capital Adequacy Frameworks of the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs); The Bridgetown Initiative, the World Bank (WB) Evolution Roadmap; and the Vulnerable 20 (V20) Accra to Marrakech Agenda.
According to the Presidency, the Summit’s ambition is to bring together several agendas: climate, development, debt and to propose innovative solutions to address these issues.
This has been unpacked into the following objectives of the Summit: Increasing fiscal space and mobilising liquidity;
Unlocking finance for the private sector in Low-Income Countries; Scaling up investment in green infrastructures; and
Designing innovative financial solutions for climate vulnerability.
The Summit also aims to set a new shared agenda which will be outlined in a Heads of State and Government Vision Statement on a New Global Financing Pact as well as to deliver a set of new commitments and concrete results.
“The Summit also intends to catalyse an ambitious agenda for upcoming 2023 international events with the aim to push for concrete results on these occasions.
“Although not aligned with the existing multilateral processes, the Paris Summit will provide a selected group of countries a platform to reach agreements on issues that can be used to influence the outcomes of the discussions in other international and multilateral platforms, such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit, G20 Summit, World Bank/International Monitory Fund Annual Meetings, the 28th Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP 28), among others,” the Presidency said.
More than 30 Heads of State and Government are confirmed to attend the Paris Summit, from Brazil, Germany; the European Union (EU) – President of the European Commission; the People’s Republic of China (at Prime Minister level); Barbados; Sri Lanka and Cuba.
Other countries confirmed to attend the Summit include Benin; Gabon; Madagascar; Mauritius; Mozambique; Senegal; Tunisia; Zambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo; the Union of Comoros, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania; the Federal Republic of Nigeria as well as the Togolese Republic.
