INTERVENTION BY
Mr. Arrmanatha Nasir
First Secretary,
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Indonesia to the United Nations
AT THE 1st PREPARATORY COMMITEE MEETING OF UNCSD
ON INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
18 MAY 2010
Mr. Chairman,
Let me begin by associating myself with the intervention made by the G77 and China.
Over the next decade, food and energy insecurity, as well as intensifying environmental
challenges including from climate change and natural disasters will continue to confront
us. Effective international governance, including from a coherent UN system, is critical to
helping us meet these challenges and achieve sustainable development.
In the context of institutional framework for sustainable development, Indonesia is of the
view that enhancing institutional framework of the UN system is important to better
facilitate the attainment of sustainable development.
We must ensure the UN system is more coherent, responsive and effective towards
sustainable development. We must build an institutional framework that eliminates the
current disconnect between policies making and implementations of commitments.
This requires an institutional framework for sustainable development having an effective
review and monitoring system; promote of capacity-building; enhance financial support
with new and additional resources; and facilitate technology transfer with a view to
overcoming technological dependence.
Our endeavor to explore a more effective and coherent institutional framework on
sustainable should not however lead us to reinventing the wheel. Better empowering and
strengthening the role UN organs such as ECOSOC, CSD, UNEP, and regional commissions
are central component in such efforts.
Moreover, effort to strengthen institutional framework for sustainable development must
also be undertaken and synergize with other reform processes. This includes the system
wide coherence process and reform in the UN environmental governance.
In the context of the environmental dimension of sustainable development, a more
effective management of environmental issues within the UN context is needed. Greater
synergies should also be pursued between the work of UN bodies such as UNEP and the
numerous Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs).
Mr. Chairman,
In moving forward on the question of institutional framework for sustainable
development, it is important that we keep in mind a number important issue.
First, discussion on institutional framework must be guided by the ultimate goal and
function. In our view this goal should be to ensure the attainment of balance in the
implementation of all three dimensions of sustainable development.
Second, we can no longer place environment as an issue for the enthusiast. Both
developed and developing countries must mainstream environment to their development
agenda. Sustainable development institutional framework must therefore ensure that
mechanisms are in place to would allow adequate supports to developing countries in this
regard.
Third, greater political commitment to the implementation of the principles of sustainable
development is needed. We must build an institutional framework that supports this.
Thank you
