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World leaders must re-boot global cooperation for today and tomorrow

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Leaders at a past UN Security Council meeting. [Xinhua]

Final negotiations are underway in New York for this month's Summit of the Future where Heads of State will agree on reforms to the building blocks of global cooperation. The UN has convened this unique Summit because of a stark fact: global problems are moving faster than the institutions designed to solve them.

We see this all around us. Ferocious conflicts and violence are inflicting terrible suffering; geopolitical divisions are rife; inequality and injustice are everywhere, corroding trust, compounding grievances, and feeding populism and extremism. The age-old challenges of poverty, hunger, discrimination, misogyny and racism are taking on new forms.

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