UN Reform

Ambassador Geir O. Pedersen and Deputy Assistant Secretary General Fadzai Gwaradzimba, UNDP, signed an agreement to implement the One UN model at country level. This agreement will strengthen the professionalization of the UN. Read more

“I welcome Ban Ki-moon’s announcement today that he will stand for re-election as United Nations Secretary-General. Ban Ki-moon has been and continues to be a close partner in areas that are of high priority for both Norway and the UN. We look forward to continuing and deepening the collaboration,” says Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. Read more

A working lunch to discuss a more efficient United Nations. The Friends of UN Reform supports steps taken to make a more relevant and coherent UN at a country level. Read more

The Norwegian Government renewed its long term commitment to UN reform today, by signing a new cooperation agreement to provide additional funds for the United Nations Country Coordination Fund which is managed by Development Operations Coordination Office. Around USD 6,6 million (NOK 40 million) will be provided over the period 2010-2011. Read more

Norway again stated in GA that it is in favour of enlargement of the Security Council to make it more representative, but also stresses that it needs to be more efficient, thus supporting concrete proposals made by the Group of Five Small States. Read more

A joint Nordic statement was given in informal consultations on System Wide Coherence, Monday 30 March 2009,  by Morten Wetland, Ambassador of Norway to the UN. Read more

- The Security Council needs to be reformed to better reflect the world community of the 21st century, said Mona Juul in a statement given to the meeting about SC reform in GA February 19th. Read more

"You, the member states are the owners, and you deserve to see the results and to hold the UN accountable," Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said at the launch of the High Level Panels reform report, “Delivering as One”. The Panel was established to explore how the UN system could work more coherently and effectively in the areas of development, humanitarian assistance and the environment Read more

"You, the member states are the owners, and you deserve to see the results and to hold the UN accountable," Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said at the launch of the High Level Panels reform report, “Delivering as One”. The Panel was established to explore how the UN system could work more coherently and effectively in the areas of development, humanitarian assistance and the environment Read more

The Nordic countries welcomed the stated intention of the co-chairs to focus on the issue of gender in the month of May at the Informal Meeting of the General Assembly on United Nations System-wide Coherence Governance 17 April 2008. Read more

UN reform for the MDGs gets a US $275 million boost from Spain, Norway and the United Kingdom over the next two years as part of a new multi-donor funding mechanism to improve United Nations work in development at the country level. Read more

During a recent mission of the United Kingdom, Norway and the Netherlands to Mozambique, Malawi and Tanzania, it became clear that there is a remarkable convergence of views on Delivering as One among these six countries. It was decided to prepare a joint statement for the Boards of all relevant UN agencies. Read more

"A comprehensive Security Council reform is an essential component of the overall United Nations reform, and progress is needed to strengthen the credibility and legitimacy of the whole organization," said Ambassador Ms. Kirsti Lintonen of Finland on behalf of the Nordic countries in the Open-ended Working Group meeting on Security Council reform. Read more