Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – 28th November 2024 – Member States of the Organisation of Southern Cooperation (OSC) have approved all the programmatic and budgetary proposals for the biennium 2025-2026, as well as the proposal to intensify shaping the multilateralism we need and consolidating the organisation the Greater South deserves.
During the General Assembly, Member states actively deliberated for four days on issues regarding the future activities of the Organisation, including the Secretary-General’s report for the 2023-2024 biennium. Based on this report, Member States, Founding States, and Associate Members were satisfied with the performance of the Organisation during the 2023-2024 biennium.
The General Assembly discussed critical issues crucial to the OSC’s mission. A total of 18 draft resolutions, spanning strategic direction, education, research, culture, technological innovation, digitalisation, and finance development, were adopted. These resolutions will serve as a roadmap for the Organisation’s future endeavours, guiding its efforts to foster the efforts towards the Third Way of Development.
The OSC’s proposals were geared towards the realisation and commitment towards building knowledge-powered societies, becoming drivers of the technological revolution, and addressing the need for greater fiscal space, less conditional access to highly concessional financing, and more strategic investments for the Greater South.
In his closing remarks, the OSC’s Secretary-General H.E. Manssour Bin Mussallam said, “It has been a moment of intense deliberations, but always in a spirit of construction, in a commitment from each of the Member States that sought to ensure that the documents adopted, the decisions taken, would lead to the best possible outcome for our collective. Our journey has been long, the road has been arduous. And there are those who will be characterised, upon hearing of this Assembly, characterised by profound scepticism. Who having heard us might call us dreamers, incorrigible, optimists, blinded to the realities of the world. But nothing could be farther from the truth.”
