UN faces new opportunities to promote world peace, development in 2016

UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 3 (NsNewsWire) — As the clock ticked into the new year, the United Nations faces new opportunities to promote peace and development in the world — to bring an early end to the Syria conflict, to kick off the implementation of a blueprint for global sustainable development, and to select a new UN chief, reports Xinhua.

Seemingly unrelated, the three major efforts can jointly make the United Nations more relevant and powerful as today’s globe is confronting armed conflicts, environmental degradation, inequality, poverty, terrorism and other challenges, experts say.

As a famous saying goes, tomorrow is just another day. In a sense, it is also true to the world body: in the new year it has to move forward on the basis of what has been achieved by its 193 members in the past year, which marked the 70th birthday of the United Nations and the 70th anniversary of the victory of the World’s Anti-Fascist War.

Every day the United Nations maintains peace in troubled places, feeds the hungry, shelters refugees, vaccinates children against polio and other deadly diseases and promotes international cooperation for development.