UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping's vision of building a community of shared future for mankind is well in line with the 2030 United Nations Agenda, a senior UN official said here Thursday.
"President Xi Jinping's concept of (building a) community of shared destiny for mankind ties in well with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development," Ahunna Eziakonwa, assistant administrator and director of the Regional Bureau for Africa, United Nations Development Program, told Xinhua.
The concept "builds on the notion of a shared future and prosperity," which calls on the whole world to rebalance the global order, work together against global challenges and protect the most vulnerable groups within society, to ensure that no country or person is left behind in the national and global development process, she said.
It is in agreement with the 2030 Agenda, which suggests "a new plan of action for a shared future guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, including full respect for international law," she said.
Regarding the rising protectionism and unilateralism in the world, Eziakonwa said that they are not the answer to global challenges.
"The scale of the challenges that we face today is (too) huge to be left to individual countries to deal with," she said.
"Multilateralism may not be a perfect world order, but it is the most optimal option, if the world is to realize shared prosperity, peace and stability," she said.
"Multilateralism has been tested in the past and will continue to be tested in the future," she added.
The international community has a responsibility to create a better and more inclusive multilateral system that can effectively support countries in their domestic agendas for growth and inclusion, and to manage trade-offs associated with global challenges like climate change, she said.
Eziakonwa also said that the China-Africa partnership could remove bottlenecks and binding constraints on Africa's development.
"To make this a win-win partnership, it must be driven by African countries' national development priorities, the Programme of Infrastructure Development for Africa and Agenda 2063," she said.
