Articles & interviews

[Financial Times] The world is at a perilous and urgent moment in the Covid-19 pandemic. The Delta variant has spread rapidly to more than 130 countries, demonstrating that we are fighting a virus that doesn’t respect borders and advances rapidly across continents. From Ana Botín, Pascal Lamy and others

[The UN Brief] Failure to heal divisions over vaccine availability for developing countries could poison the well of global cooperation and imperil the COP26 climate negotiations. Advanced economies should therefore offer the Global South a “solidarity package” encompassing vaccine distribution, debt relief, and climate goals.Contribution by Justin Vaïsse

[The Guardian] Pascal Lamy, former director of the WTO and chair of a joint conference organised by the nonprofit Paris Peace Forum and the One Campaign, which aims to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, said: “The 870m does really look meagre.” He added that he hoped the G20 finance ministers meeting in Venice and the national leaders due to meet in Rome later this year would be more ambitious.

[France Inter] « Au Forum de Paris sur la Paix nous travaillons sur les principes du monde post-Covid. » - Justin Vaïsse

[The Lancet] Doses of Covid-19 vaccines must be shared globally. G7 countries secured contracts for 1.3 billion more doses of the vaccine than they will need to vaccinate their entire populations. Contribution de Adrien Abécassis

[Project Syndicate] Failure to heal divisions over vaccine availability for developing countries could poison the well of global cooperation and imperil the COP26 climate negotiations. Advanced economies should therefore offer the Global South a “solidarity package” encompassing vaccine distribution, debt relief, and climate goals.Contribution by Justin Vaïsse

[Project Syndicate] At the Paris Peace Forum on November 12 last year, French President Emmanuel Macron and other world leaders launched a global discussion on forging a new consensus for the post-COVID-19 world. This discussion is continuing through an ongoing debate published by Project Syndicate and its member newspapers worldwide. Contribution d'Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, Macky Sall, António Guterres, Charles Michel et Ursula von der Leyen

(Macron) highlighted efforts to build “what we immodestly called the Paris consensus” at the Paris Peace Forum for global leaders last year. “The idea was basically that we needed to move beyond the Washington consensus,” he added.

[Institut Montaigne] Multilateralism took many a hit in 2020, and many global institutions and alliances were really put to the test. As the weak points of the multilateral order were exposed, governments and the international community were also provided with several areas for concrete improvement and new courses for collective action. Marc Reverdin, Secretary General of the Paris Peace Forum, reflects on the state of multilateralism, the points of caution and how we can rebuild.

[France 5] « Il y a quand même de l’espoir dans le drame qui s’est joué mercredi, parce qu’après tout c’est aussi la journée où d’une part Trump s’est déconsidéré, il est devenu toxique pour une partie du parti républicain. Et puis c’est la journée où les démocrates ont pris le contrôle , pas du Congrès mais d’une des deux chambres : le Sénat et ça c’est très important pour nous parce que ça veut dire que Joe Biden aura une majorité au Sénat et à la chambre pour gouverner et en particulier en matière de politique internationale. » - Justin Vaïsse

[euronews] « We need to seriously increase the marine areas we protect. Some of these zones are in the European Union, but we need to go beyond that. Our goal is to protect 30% of our total aquatic surface by 2030. We also need to systematically equip our fishing boats with geolocation tools to be able to track them and stop over-fishing. We must develop clean engines for all kinds of of motorised vehicles on the seas and oceans, especially for coastal areas where ferries and costal ships tend to be. » - Pascal Lamy

[The Economic Times] « On the one side, we have a system based on sovereignty and on the other there is an increasing divergence on what sovereignty means, which is hindering the system to make progress. » - Pascal Lamy

[France Culture] « La vocation du Forum de Paris sur la Paix est d'élargir le multilatéralisme à d'autres acteurs que les Etats et de l'ouvrir à la société civile, les fondations philanthropiques, les ONG, les banques de développement. » - Justin Vaïsse

[France Culture] « La Chine & les Etats-Unis ont perdu en prestige du fait de leurs réactions à la pandémie de Covid-19. Leur puissance en revanche n'a été que peu affaiblie. » - Justin Vaïsse

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[Le Monde] « Il y a 193 pays mais un seul climat, un seul cyberespace et une seule santé mondiale : hors de l’action collective, point de salut. » - Justin Vaïsse

[Tass] « Paris Peace Forum offers a platform for projects and initiatives devoted to creating peace in the future", the forum's Director-General Justin Vaïsse said during the final conference. He expressed confidence that the event "was recognized as an international summit, a top-level conference and a decision-making platform. »