President of the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development, Vuk Jeremić, delivered an online lecture about EU enlargement and the problem of separatism on November 12th, 2020, for students at the world-renowned university Sciences Po in Paris.
“The United Nations is extremely important for Serbia because the UN Security Council will ultimately decide on the final status of Kosovo. The global organization, however, is currently in a bad shape. Other multilateral bodies, for example, the World Health Organisation that faced great challenges since the outbreak of the coronavirus, are also in need of a reform,” Jeremic underlined.
This is a “season of darkness.” That grave statement resonates both like a moral indictment and a description of something sinister afoot. Indeed, it sounds more worrisome than Jimmy Carter’s 1979 somber portrait of “growing doubt about the meaning of our lives and the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.” The malevolent may even compare this to Ronald Reagan’s characterizations of the Soviet Union. And yet those words were neither directed at a foreign country nor spoken by an enemy. Rather, they were uttered by a U.S. presidential candidate placing the blame for America’s stumbles squarely on his opponent’s shoulders.
The United States is in a deep crisis, and that the outcome of the upcoming U.S. presidential elections will greatly determine the direction of global affairs in the following years.
H.E. Mr. Vuk Jeremić will be a speaker at the Kozmetsky Center, St. Edward's University conference on "Exploring Private Sector Contributions to Sustainable Development Among EU & aspiring EU Member Nations of South Eastern Europe" Sept 28-29
At the onset, I would like to join others in offering my congratulations to Ms. Sanda Ojiambo on her recent appointment as the Executive Director of the UN Global Compact. I would also like to thank Ms. Lise Kingo for her many years of dedicated service and vigorous leadership in the same post.
Watch Beirut Institute Summit e-Policy Circle 12 hosted by Raghida Dergham with H.E. Vuk Jeremić, Dr. Abdulaziz Sager, Ms. Danielle Pletka, and Dr. Dmitri Trenin.
During the discussion, the three interlocutors agreed that Serbia needs a strategy for the digital transformation of the economy and to better foster education so as to be able to take advantage of remote working, which will be increasingly present even in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Continuing with the "Corona Dialogues" series, the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development organized a discussion on June 7th, 2020, entitled “Moscow does not believe in tears”, featuring Prof. Dr. Sergey Karaganov, the Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at Moscow's Higher School of Economics, and CIRSD President Vuk Jeremic.
The world of today bears a disconcerting familiarity to the one staged by Shakespeare: the COVID-19 pandemic has assiduously exposed numerous weaknesses of an international system tormented by dysfunctional governance, hastening rivalries, economic alarm, social disconnect, and environmental deterioration.