Join us as we sit down with Ambassador Robert Wood, the Deputy Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations, for an exclusive conversation about the effort to get the Pact for the Future approved and the expectations from it to include the critical need for Security Council reform to make the UN system more effective and legitimate.
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Ambassador Robert A. Wood, Deputy Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations (guest). The U.S. Mission to the United Nations can be found at @USUN on X, formerly known as Twitter.

References:
Alex, our podcast host, wrote the United Nations General Assembly curtain raiser for Foreign Policy, and in it, she explains the 'Pact for the Future,' and quotes Amb. Wood along with other UN experts. Here's a gift link for nonsubscribers.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/23/unga-summit-united-nations-dysfunction-guterres-russia/

The Pact for the Future is explained in this site about the Summit of the Future.

https://www.un.org/en/summit-of-the-future/pact-for-the-future

In recent remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations, Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations, discussed the U.S. commitment and vision for reforming the United Nations Security Council.

https://www.cfr.org/event/conversation-us-ambassador-united-nations-linda-thomas-greenfield

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Music: Adobe Stock

Photo: UN Photo/Evan Schneider; August 30, 2023, 3:16 p.m. At the UN Security Council meeting on the situation in Mali, a view of delegates in conversation with Robert A. Wood, Deputy Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of August, 2023.