GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – President Irfaan Ali will chair a Excessive-Stage Open Debate on “Poverty, Underdevelopment and Battle: Implications for the Upkeep of Worldwide Peace and Safety” as Guyana assumed the Presidency of the United Nations Safety Council on June 1 for a month.
A press release from the Everlasting Mission of Guyana to the United Nations famous that the packed schedule for the month contains a number of mandated conferences of the Council, together with on Syria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Central Africa, Sudan, Libya, and Yemen.
It stated that there would even be a mandated assembly on Decision 2334 relating to Israeli settlements on Palestinian territories.
On June 19, President Ali will chair a high-level debate that includes briefers from the United Nations system and the African Union, in addition to participation from a number of UN Member States. “The talk will construct upon earlier discussions within the Council on the connection between sustainable improvement and worldwide peace and safety, zeroing in on poverty and underdevelopment as each drivers and penalties of battle.
It comes at a time when armed conflicts are growing, and the Sustainable Improvement Targets should not on observe to be achieved by 2030,” the assertion famous.
It stated Guyana may even arrange the annual Kids and Armed Battle Open Debate on June 25.
Along with briefings from the Particular Consultant of the Secretary-Common for Kids and Armed Battle, Virginia Gamba, and UNICEF Govt Director, Catherine Russell, the controversy will characteristic statements from Member States in response to the Secretary-Common’s annual report on Kids and Armed Battle.
Guyana may even focus the Council’s consideration on a few of its precedence areas, together with battle prevention and the security-development nexus, the impacts of local weather change on peace and safety, the safety of kids in armed battle, and the ladies’s peace and safety agenda.
Council members are anticipated to undertake the Programme of Work on Monday, following which Guyana’s Everlasting Consultant to the United Nations, Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, will temporary the media on the Programme and plans for the Presidency.
Guyana was elected to the Safety Council for a two-year time period, from January 2024 to December 2025. Earlier than its present time period, Guyana served on the Council in 1975-1976 and 1982-1983.
