The Summit of the Future — a high-level meeting which accompanied this year’s 79th U.N. General Assembly, produced “the most concrete progressive agreement on Security Council reform since the 1960s,” according to one of the summit’s key players.
Speaking at a Devex event on the sidelines of UNGA, Michèle Griffin, director of the summit, described how it aimed to find common ground between countries on a broad range of issues. A document summarizing many of these issues, the Pact for the Future, was agreed last Sunday despite heavy Russian opposition.
Griffin said a group of wrangling nations had made progress on several intractable topics, including the international financial architecture, and newly developing technologies such as AI, and what she described as “everything from cyberspace to outer space.”