Madam President,

I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.

At the outset, the Group appreciate your efforts as well as your team for preparing the UN80 Action Plan and for providing this briefing.

In this regard, we would like to make the following preliminary observations and would appreciate clarification on a few points:

First, development pillar should maintain its priority under UN80 Initiative with a focus on how to further enhance support to developing countries.

In this context, we would request further details on the proposed regional initiatives, including the system-wide working group on the Regional Reset and Regional Integrated Platforms, including on how these initiatives will enhance support to member states at regional and country-level.

Second, Members of the Group have had extremely rich experience of cooperation and robust partnerships with UN entities, particularly assisting the host governments on their national development priorities for decades. We would encourage that regional initiatives, including regional integrated platforms should strengthen the existing cooperation and coordination mechanism, including reporting mechanism and capacity of UN Agencies, Funds and Programme (AFPs) to assist member states.

Third, we would like to request a comprehensive proposal on regional initiatives, including regional reset, regional integrated platforms, data commons, and UNCT reconfiguration for the consideration of member states. The proposal must include cost-benefit analysis on proposed mergers and restructuring, reporting lines and funding mechanism. We look forward to receive comprehensive proposal on this matter.

Fourth, we note the proposal on shared platform initiative aimed at simplify Development Cooperation Frameworks, Humanitarian Response Plans and peacebuilding strategies. We would like to underline that host government priorities and national ownership must be the guiding principles in all such proposals. We look forward to details in this regard.

Fifth, The Action Plan confirms the imperative to ensure that decisions related to structural reconfiguration and entity realignment ultimately fall under intergovernmental authority.

In this context, could the Secretariat clarify when and at which stage Member States can expect to receive the proposed scenarios to assess the proposals and provide final decisions, bearing in mind that many of these entities were established by decisions of Member States, and how the Action Plan will distinguish actions within the authority of the Secretary-General from those requiring intergovernmental consideration.

Finally, Madam President, given the significance of UN80 Initiative and its implications across the UN system and member states, we would request that sufficient time and adequate information will be provided to member states on all proposals, including the regional initiatives on sustainable development, merger of entities, humanitarian compact and human rights group. In this regard, we would appreciate clarification on how Member States will be meaningfully engaged across the 31 work packages as proposals advance. especially in light of the limited size and capacity of many missions, in particular those of developing countries, and considering the volume of proposed changes and their multidimensional impact on mandates, governance structures, and resource requirements.

The Group reaffirms to engage constructively in this process, We look forward to continued dialogue as the Action Plan further develops.

I thank you.