Leaders call for unified response to worldwide problems at Baku Global Forum
Serving and former leaders met under the principles of solidarity, equality and inclusivity to exchange and find global solutions to global problems.
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00:00 If we compare what we have been discussing last March and what we are discussing today,
00:06 we see substantial changes, geopolitical changes.
00:13 Azerbaijan President Aliyev welcomed guests to the 11th Global Baku Forum, a bringing
00:21 together of world leaders under the principles of solidarity, equality and inclusivity to
00:26 exchange and find global solutions to global problems.
00:30 This year's conference was held under the theme "Fixing the Fractured World".
00:35 Indeed we are living in unprecedented time.
00:39 There are a lot of going on.
00:42 We have political instability, we have economical disparities, we have climate change, we have
00:50 health challenges, of course education, we have social injustice, but those challenges
00:57 that we are facing cannot be dealt alone, individually or regionally.
01:03 As we learned from the past, we have to be unified in our response.
01:09 Four current and 40 former presidents and prime ministers came together over three days
01:14 here in Baku to discuss the pressing issues challenging our fragmented society.
01:20 While discussions recognized a shared humanity and shared futures, there were resounding
01:25 calls to modernize outdated institutions and the need for global governance.
01:31 We are in a situation where the world has dramatically changed over the last 70 years
01:38 and we are still living in a world with an architecture which has been designed a long
01:44 time ago, so it's always very difficult to change governance, to change the decision
01:52 making processes, particularly you have to say in the political arena.
01:56 There were stark warnings also about the state of the global economic order.
02:01 We are living in a highly dangerous financial and economic world that in some respect with
02:08 some indicators it is even more fragile than it was immediately before the last big crisis.
02:16 Reinforce prudentials, reinforce the functioning of the continental institutions.
02:22 Europe of course is a case in point and I take it that as I said it is later today than
02:31 most I would say participants in the world are thinking.
02:36 It is very late.
02:38 Hurry up.
02:39 And debt restructuring was a key issue flagged by the United Nations.
02:44 All our economies are tied together.
02:46 Low income countries and middle income countries choking in debt, unable to pay for the health
02:52 of their people, for the education of their children.
02:56 There's no system where you can get quick debt restructuring and get your country back
03:02 on its feet.
03:03 These are things that can only be solved globally and Baku Forum and other forums where leaders
03:12 and governments come together in equality, point to the future and can help to reform
03:19 the world economic order.
03:22 With war in many parts of the world there was a substantial dialogue discussing the
03:26 idea of peace.
03:28 Peace is priceless.
03:29 We can do everything to increase our capabilities in order to have more secure our continent.
03:36 And of course I'm coming from a region that is very fragile and the situation of the war
03:41 in Ukraine is bringing the people there to think about more the cooperation and dialogue.
03:48 We have been supporting every issue that has been related to human values because we have
03:53 to live with that.
03:54 We have so many wars, asymmetrical wars, wars that don't even have front lines that they
03:59 used to be in the past.
04:01 How do you solve a problem where you have armed rebels that have no front line that
04:07 hide in the population and that don't even declare a cause that they are fighting for?
04:12 How do you solve such a problem?
04:14 We need the global cooperation to solve some of it.
04:18 Topics such as AI technology, innovation and global health challenges also dominated the
04:24 agenda.
04:25 We need resources, resources for strengthening health systems, resources for education, resources
04:32 for research and innovation.
04:33 We need data also, we need information.
04:36 What's happening, how we can monitor diseases, surveillance, all this.
04:40 It's a lot to do but if we are on it together and we put it as a priority, I think we can
04:45 do it.
04:47 When attempting to fix the fractured world, the resounding agreement of the Global Baku
04:51 Forum was that global challenges need a global response.