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Climate change, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, pandemics, and rising living costs are among the most important challenges facing the world today, according to a new wide-ranging citizen survey covering 22 countries around the world.
Countries surveyed included Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Moldova, Nigeria, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, the UK, the US and Ukraine. Sub-Saharan African countries are far more favourable to fostering a peace deal in Ukraine than other global regions, with a 72% approval for encouraging a peace deal, compared to only 21% approval for providing military support to Ukraine.
But there is strong and widespread support for the view that peace requires Russia to withdraw from Ukrainian territory it has occupied, including in some countries sympathetic to Russian messages such as Turkey and South Africa. Only in four of the 20 countries this question was asked in – Senegal, India, Indonesia, and Serbia – do less than 50% of the respondents take this view.
Despite the apparent interest in global solutions, there is clear dissatisfaction with the work of the UN, particularly in richer countries. In only three countries – Kenya, Nigeria, and Ukraine – do at least 50% of the respondents believe that the UN had generally done a good job in relation to the Ukraine invasion. This falls to 25% or less in eight countries, including significant UN donors such as France and the US, , the UK , and Japan .
Such measures enjoy significant support, even in richer countries that would be main sources of the needed financing and investment. In the three Western European countries included in the poll – the UK, Germany, and France – 58% of respondents would support dedicating 2% of their national budget to a global solidarity fund to help those most in need–with the figure rising to 65% in France. In the US more than half agreed with the idea.
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