The brand new Safety Council President held a press convention at UN Headquarters the place she briefed the media on the Council’s Programme of Work for February 2024.
The warfare in Gaza will stay a precedence focus for the UN Safety Council in February, its President for the month mentioned at a Headquarters press convention February 1, including that it’s going to maintain conferences on the conditions in Ukraine and Myanmar.
Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Guyana’s Everlasting Consultant to the United Nations, assumed the rotating Presidency of the UN Safety Council on February 1.
Briefing the media, she mentioned that the Council will organise a high-level open debate to look at the dynamic relationship between local weather change, meals insecurity and conflicts throughout the context of sustaining worldwide peace and safety.
The assembly — scheduled on February 13 — shall be chaired by the President of Guyana, Mohamed Irfaan Ali, additionally that includes remarks by United Nations Secretary-Basic António Guterres; Govt Secretary of the UN Framework Conference on Local weather Change (UNFCCC) Simon Stiell; Deputy Director-Basic of the Meals and Agricultural Group (FAO) Beth Bechdol; and a civil society consultant.
The Council President mentioned Guyana will promote enhanced transparency, effectivity, effectiveness, and inclusiveness within the Council’s work and decide to adopting a consensus-building method in full collaboration with all its members. “We can even search to incorporate a gender perspective in conferences so far as applicable in line with our commitments to ladies peace and safety,” she added.
Gaza Ceasefire
Requested a few draft decision on a ceasefire in Gaza ready by Algeria, the council President mentioned that it’s being mentioned and he or she intends to undertake a constructive method to the decision. “We imagine that we should always not wait one other day for that,” she mentioned, expressing hope for the adoption of that decision.
Requested a few report that Israel has agreed to a ceasefire proposal, she mentioned that she doesn’t have that info. There’s a draft decision being mentioned and “we’ll see how that can progress in mild of this new info that you simply simply offered”, she mentioned.
Restoring Peace and Safety in Haiti
Responding to a query a few delay in deploying the Multinational Help Power in Haiti resulting from a choice by the Nairobi Excessive Court docket in Kenya, she mentioned that the Council is seized of the matter, noting that Nairobi determined to attraction the courtroom’s resolution. In her nationwide capability, she voiced concern in regards to the rising challenges in Haiti and the dire humanitarian state of affairs. The Caribbean international locations which have indicated their participation within the Power are the Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda, and Jamaica, she added.
On Ukraine and Myanmar
On Ukraine, she mentioned that the date for the assembly is being finalised, however she doesn’t foresee any final result doc at this second to mark the second anniversary of the Russian invasion. On Myanmar, she mentioned that the Council will hear a report from the particular envoy of the Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Venezuela
On the territorial dispute between Guyana and Venezuela, she mentioned that it isn’t on the Council’s agenda for February, including — in her nationwide capability — that Guyana has not requested a gathering on that nation.
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