Dennis Francis, President of the United Nations Common Meeting (UNGA), visited the workplaces of the United Nations in Trinidad and Tobago on Aug. 5 for a rare assembly of the Nation Staff (UNCT) chaired by Director of the ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean and Resident Coordinator a.i., Diane Quarless.
UN representatives mentioned with Ambassador Francis the Staff’s programming priorities in its growth cooperation inside Trinidad and Tobago, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten.
“We all know that the UN’s existence is within the area,” stated the Ambassador, noting that in his travels as President of the UNGA over the previous 12 months, he has all the time met the UNCT when visiting a United Nations Member State. “The UN’s existence is near the individuals, near the affect that the UN creates, and near those that are the eventual beneficiaries of [the UN’s] programmes and initiatives,” he stated. The “proper troopers” have been wanted within the area to offer coverage type and substance and to “make it alive”.
Ambassador Francis spoke of the Common’s Meeting’s personal priorities in its work over the (UNGA78) session that he has led as President. These included the UNGA’s first ever Sustainability Week in April, which targeted on points which are confronting the worldwide neighborhood, together with some which are of elementary curiosity to the Caribbean reminiscent of tourism, power and debt.
Sustainability Week was a “pioneering growth” that resonated with Member States, stated the President, and served as a “steppingstone” to the Summit of the Future (upcoming in September), which he described because the “large harvest of 2024” that can try and “refocus and recharge the thrust of the SDGs,” and mobilise Heads of State and Authorities to decide to reaching the Targets.
Substantive Resident Coordinator, Joanna Kazana, although not at present in nation, additionally joined the hybrid assembly on-line. She ushered within the assembly interventions of UNCT colleagues with an outline of the Staff’s work as applied inside the Multicountry Sustainable Improvement Cooperation Framework (MSDCF).
The assembly concluded with a presentation to Ambassador Francis of the United Nations 2023 Annual Outcomes Report on the work of the United Nations in Trinidad and Tobago, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten.
The President of the Common Meeting is being hosted by the Authorities of the Trinidad and Tobago on a three-day go to that started on Sunday 4 August. He hosted a media briefing on his arrival and is to carry conferences with the Performing President of Trinidad and Tobago, the Prime Minister, and different Authorities officers. He’s additionally anticipated to satisfy with representatives of civil society and have interaction with college college students.
Ambassador Dennis Francis, Everlasting Consultant of Trinidad and Tobago to the United Nations, continues in time period as President of the Common Meeting till September 2024, when the present session of the Common Meeting ends.
