Kenya will continue championing the reform of the international financial architecture to make it more responsive to the needs of countries in the Global South. Of particular importance are debt crisis prevention mechanisms and debt pauses to ensure that debtor countries do not fall into distress or default during disasters and pandemics. Addressed a virtual meeting of the Heads of State Sustainable Development Goals Stimulus Leaders Group convened by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The high-level meeting is a lead up to the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development to take place in Seville, Spain, later this month. Other leaders who addressed the virtual meeting were Presidents @CyrilRamaphosa of South Africa, @HHichilema (Zambia) and Abdel Fattah El Sisi (Egypt), and Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sanchez, among others.