Chinese-Russian Text on Constructing a Community of Common Destiny for Mankind – A Crucial Peacebuilding Approach
EDITORIAL, 14 Feb 2022
#732 | René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service
The presence of the Russian President to the start of the Winter Olympics led to an important Joint Statement which goes well beyond a press statement usual after bilateral meetings. Thus the Joint Statement must have been in preparation for some time and stresses current proposals of the two States. Thus it merits close attention. The Joint Statement highlights the concept of the community of common destiny for mankind:
“The Russian side notes the significance of the concept of constructing a community of common destiny for mankind proposed by the Chinese side to ensure greater solidarity of the international community and consolidation of efforts in responding to common challenges.”
The Joint Statement sets out the political framework for its proposals.
“Today, the world is going through momentous changes, and humanity is entering a new era of rapid development and profound transformation. It sees the development of such processes and phenomena as multipolarity, economic globalization, the advent of information society, cultural diversity, transformation of the global governance architecture and world order. There is increasing interrelation and interdependence between States; a trend has emerged towards redistribution of power in the world; and the international community is showing a growing demand for the leadership aiming at peaceful and gradual development.”
The United Nations is to play a central role in this effort. The Joint Statement goes on to call
“to protect the United Nations – driven international architecture and the international law-based world order, seek genuine multipolarity with the United Nations and its Security Council playing a central and coordinating role, promote more democratic international relations, and ensure peace, stability and sustainable development across the world …The Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set noble goals in the area of universal human rights, set forth fundamental principles, which all the States must comply with and observe in deeds…Interaction and cooperation on human rights matters should be based on the principle of equality of all countries and mutual respect for the sake of strengthening the international human rights architecture.”
Economic development is stressed.
“ In order to accelerate the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, we call on the international community to take practical steps in key areas of cooperation such as poverty reduction, food security, vaccines and epidemics control, sustainable development, including green development, industrialization, digital economy and infrastructure connectivity.”
Given current world tensions and the possibility of armed conflicts, the Joint Statement stresses that
“The international community should actively engage in global governance to ensure universal, comprehensive, indivisible and lasting security.”
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Full text of the Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development of 4 Feb 2022
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René Wadlow is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment. He is President of the Association of World Citizens, an international peace organization with consultative status with ECOSOC, the United Nations organ facilitating international cooperation and problem-solving in economic and social issues, and editor of Transnational Perspectives.
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All very well, but I’m afraid I have to disagree considerably with René Wadlow interpretation of political communications, statements and declaration. Mr Wadlow wants to “accelerate” the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, without realizing the world is at the brink of World War III precisely because the “Agenda for Sustainable Development,” has been fully implemented and at great speeds, since its creation 7 years ago.
The famous Agenda does NOT call for an END to Militarism, a militarised world, Armed Forces, the Arms Trade, or, to use mass murderer and former US President Dwight Eisenhower’s title: the Military Industrial Complex.
This means the ‘dividers’ of the planet, known as Security Council, have to continue creating insecurity, By maintaning the world divided in to main blocks, with Russia and China on one side and USA and UK on the other. With France playing the diplomatic arbiter.
Now, anybody connected to the War Industry knows that no success could ever be achieved without politicians organizing wars. They have to keep organizing ‘attacks’ so that can justify the obscene sums of money they spend on training people in the Art of killing’, for our ‘defense’. More human absurdity impossible to imagine.
We also all know that to facilitate wars (or the success of the War industry) (also a good source of illegitimate gains for many politicians and diplomats, including senior UN authorities) politicians NEED poverty, hunger, homelessness, illiteracy, unemployment, social division, political and religious tension and hatred, patriotism, etc. So, this is what they promote, via their partners in the Media, spying agencies (agents provocateurs) and their diplomatic representations in other countries.
None of us should ever forget the late US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who said “No war in the world is an accident. Wars only happen when negotiations for war between the fighting countries were agreed”