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Statement at the Annual Session of the 2017 Executive Board of UNICEF (Amb. Oh Young-ju)

작성자: 주유엔대표부
작성일: 2017-06-13

Statement by Ambassador Oh Young-ju

Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations

The Annual Session of the 2017 Executive Board of UNICEF

June 13, 2017

New York

Thank you, Mr. President.

At the outset, I would like to extend my appreciation to Executive Director Anthony Lake for his comprehensive statement and his strong leadership.

As we are in the last year of implementing the current Strategic Plan, UNICEF’s overall performance in 2016 bears significant meanings with regard to its successful completion. My delegation commends UNICEF’s considerable achievements against the key milestones.

In particular, considering the desperate need of educational support for the most vulnerable children, it is also notable that UNICEF succeeded to provide basic education to 11.7 million children in humanitarian situations.

While continuing our efforts under the current plan, we also need to discuss a new strategic plan in line with the ongoing UN Development System reform and QCPR mandates. In this regard, I would like to make a few comments that we would like to emphasize.

First, my delegation supports the overall direction of the draft Strategic Plan for its strong alignment with SDGs and its clear focus on the most vulnerable children. We also welcome the inclusion of partnerships as one of the cross-cutting priorities. Moving forward, we encourage UNICEF to set its baselines, targets and indicators at appropriate level and to support them with solid evidence.

Second, we would like to stress the importance of humanitarian-development-peace nexus as mandated in QCPR, both in narratives and results framework. In this context, we are pleased to see the inclusion of humanitarian-development integration in the draft results framework. We also look forward to a clearer vision of its contribution to peacebuilding in the new strategic plan.

Third, my delegation believes that UNICEF should seek for both complementarity and clear division of labor in relation to other UN entities, in order to maximize the results on the ground. To find the right balance between the two, the new plan should incorporate concrete actions ensuring collaborative works with sister agencies.

In order to successfully deliver UNICEF’s dual mandate, it is imperative to secure adequate and reliable resources. Particularly with the existing funding sources, it is important to increase flexible and multi-year funding, given the recent declining core trends. For its part, the Korean Government is considering contributing a total of 5 million US dollars to UNICEF’s humanitarian thematic funding over the next three years beginning this year.

In addition, we finalized legal measures for the continuation of its air-ticket solidarity levy, now entitled ‘Global Disease Eradication Fund’ this year. With this fund, we are funding several multi-year projects of UNICEF to improve maternal and child health in Sub-Saharan African countries. We hope to explore possibilities for further collaboration with UNICEF through Global Disease Eradication Fund. Given a critical role of innovation in terms of effective use of resources, Korea will continue to actively engage in and support for the work of the Global Innovation Center.

Concluding my remarks, I would like to once again emphasize the Republic of Korea’s continued support for UNICEF and its mandate. With UNICEF Seoul Office launched last April, I am confident that our partnership for realizing the rights of every child in the world will grow even stronger.

Thank you. /END/

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