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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

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World facing five main challenges at same time

Belgrade/Paris, 11 November 2021

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said today at the forum in Paris that the world must be aware that global governance has five main challenges that it must talk about in a multilateral form.

At the panel "Think about the shortcomings: Improving global governance in the times of COVID-19 and beyond", within the Paris Peace Forum, Brnabic said that the security of citizens in the epidemiological sense, the energy crisis, and the migration crisis as the main challenges.

The Prime Minister also pointed out that the changes brought by the pandemic for individual freedoms, as well as technological challenges, cannot be ignored.

We have to be fair and honest, the world is in chaos. At least five major challenges are happening at the same time and each government is fighting for itself to keep citizens safe as well as economies stable and there is no time for multilateralism. The only way to succeed is to think strategically about the needs of the citizens, said the Prime Minister.

When it comes to the green economy and climate change, she pointed out that we should listen more to the voice of the citizens about what to do, about clean air, water and management.

The big question is what world organizations are doing and how to deal with the problems. Poor countries require transition, some leading countries are also the biggest polluters. Transition alone is something extra in the awareness of green transition. That must be taken more seriously, the Prime Minister noted.

However, Brnabic pointed out that digitalisation and the use of new technologies helped a lot during the coronavirus pandemic, and emphasised that thanks to the digitalisation of primary and secondary schools in previous years, Serbia did not lose a single school day.

The Prime Minister explained that Serbia has done a lot since 2017 to reform the government in the electronic sense, primarily by digitalizing public services, which was even more successful in Serbia than in some other countries.

Since 2017, we have connected all classrooms to the Internet, which has helped us not to lose a day of schooling during the pandemic. We are ready to switch to online classes in full if necessary. We have already done a lot at the presentation of electronic services, if you want to register children in schools or kindergartens, you do not have to come in person, you can do it electronically, said Brnabic at a panel attended by Tunisian Prime Minister Najla Bouden and UN General Assembly Chairman Abdulla Shahid.

The Prime Minister of Serbia also pointed out that, if we use technology in the right way, children will not only be better, but will also be more interested in various jobs.