GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – President Dr. Irfaan Ali is predicted to chair a high-level open debate on the United Nations Safety Council as Guyana presides over the Council in February 2024.
Overseas Secretary and Guyana’s Excessive Consultant for United Nations Safety Council Affairs, Robert M. Persaud, in an opinion piece marking Guyana’s assumption of its seat as an elected member on the UN Safety Council and its presidency of the Council in February, mentioned that the high-level assembly could be held beneath the theme “ the Affect of Local weather Change and Meals Insecurity within the Upkeep of Worldwide Peace and Safety.”
He ought to have disclosed the dates for the assembly in February.
Persad mentioned that given the rising concern and acknowledgment of the local weather, meals, and battle nexus, the open debate will promote larger understanding, higher coordination of responses, and proactive approaches to addressing the intersection of meals insecurity and local weather change in sustaining worldwide peace and safety.
“Of be aware, Guyana’s presence on the Safety Council comes amidst the rise within the variety of conflicts, improve in democratic backslide, and menace to peace in lots of areas of the world,” he mentioned.
Persaud mentioned that the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, for example, “have upended peace, inflicting instability with far-reaching penalties for each the human beings who’re the casualties and the worldwide system, which is now experiencing extreme pressure.
“All our residents ought to be proud that Guyana will play its half in constructing alliances and fascinating meaningfully find long-lasting and sustainable options to conflicts, in keeping with worldwide regulation and the UN Constitution.
“Furthermore, we may even search to raise the voices of creating nations, notably these in states like Haiti, Colombia, and within the African area, and to make sure the respect for all states’ territorial integrity and sovereignty in line with worldwide legal guidelines,” Persaud mentioned.
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