We have a brief, brief remarks from our Executive Director of UNEP Missing Anderson.
I know that it has been long hours.
And so let me begin by thanking members of the media for staying the course and for also not having the sleep.
I think at this point, obviously it's very clear that we did not arrive where we wanted to arrive, but I also believe that everybody came here with the intention to get the deal done.
However, it is clear that we are living in an era of significant political complexity.
We're living in a time of economic challenges and obviously multilateral complexity.
But despite those profound challenges that were journeyed, despite the disappointment that we all live with, that we have to accept that significant progress was made.
Progress was made in that red lines were clarified.
Progress was made in that countries discussed.
Progress is made because people are demanding a, a, a treaty now.
There's a lot of hard work ahead.
Everyone has to understand that this work will not stop because plastic pollution will not stop.
We at Junip are here to support this process and we will not stop.
We will continue to engage in the multilateral process as Member States desire, and we will also engage at the ground level with Member States who so request in terms of programmatic support for enabling an enhanced management and an end to plastic pollution, including in the marine environment.
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So where do, where do we go from there as UNEF director?
What's what are you recommending?
Shall we go on with that kind of format which proved to be difficult or alternatives?
Multilateralism is never easy, and I still stand by the fact that getting a treaty, ideally in two or three years has never been done before.
Tell me of a treaty that has been done in shorter time and then we can discuss.
Would I have liked this in two years?
At this point it is critical that we take some time first to sleep and then to reflect and then to regroup.
And one of the regrouping points is obviously the United Nations Environment Assembly, at which point I am expected to deliver a report to Member States.
In the meantime, I'm quite sure that Member States will be discussing amongst themselves on the appropriate way forward.
In the end, this is a Member States LED process and we from the United Nations are here to support it.
Just given the state of where things are at now, how progress has been going so far, I'm wondering what's your new timeline when the world wonders when it could have a treaty?
Can you give us any sense of that?
And what do you say to people who are disappointed that they didn't get a treaty here?
To the people who are disappointed, I am in that group.
I believe that everyone who cares about today, tomorrow, who cares about the future of our planet, and who cares about this problem that is getting ever present more, more, more.
I'm sorry, I'm really tired.
That is getting ever present more intense.
I believe that everybody is very disappointed.
However, multilateralism is not easy.
What I will say about the future, I can't say.
We literally just walked off the floor.
You will know that I am an impatient woman and that I will not settle until we have a pathway forward.
But I need to obviously listen to Member States and understand where we are going.
And it is important that everyone takes time to reflect on what they have heard because in the close groups, in the contact groups, in the corridors of these halls, red lines have been mentioned for the first time in a true way, which will enable deeper pathway seeking as we move ahead.
That's all the time we have this morning.
Thank you very much, colleagues.
