ICC comment on “Delivering as one”: Report of the UN Secretary-General’s high-level panel on UN system-wide coherence

Sustainable economic growth is vital for all countries and is a major contribution to the eradication of poverty. The UN has a critical role in promoting international cooperation and actions as steps to solving global challenges of economic, social and environmental sustainability, and moving towards prosperity and progress. All concerned actors should be involved in the attainment of these of objectives and it should be recognized that business has a particular role to play in terms of policy implementation.

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) therefore strongly supports the need for better coordination and efficiency within the UN in the areas of sustainable economic and social development, and environmental management. The need for coherence and efficiency through elimination of fragmentation and duplication of effort was one of the principal points made in the world business message on the role of the UN in the 21st century, submitted to Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of the UN Millennium Assembly.