He will replace the current president, Peter Thomson of Fiji when the next assembly session convenes in September this year. Addressing the assembly after his election, Lajcak said his priorities would include peace, migration, development as well as climate change. Calling for a focus on people...
UNITED NATIONS, June 5 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations (UN) General Assembly on Tuesday picked Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces, Ecuador's minister for foreign affairs and human mobility, to be its next president. The 193-member General Assembly, one of the highest policy-making bodies at the ...
Hungarian diplomat Csaba Korosi speaks after being elected the president of the upcoming 77th session of the UN General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York, on June 7, 2022. Csaba Korosi was elected the president of the upcoming 77th session of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. ...
Lajcak also ran for the position of UN Secretary-General in 2016. He will replace the current president, Peter Thomson of Fiji when the next assembly session convenes in September this year. Addressing the assembly after his election, Lajcak said his priorities would include peace, migration, ...
Yang congratulated Treki on his election as UN General Assembly president. Treki, who previously served as Libya's foreign minister and later as the country's UN envoy, was elected president of the 64thsession of the UN General Assembly on June 10, 2009. ...
Hungarian diplomat Csaba Korosi speaks after being elected the president of the upcoming 77th session of the UN General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York, on June 7, 2022. (XIE E / XINHUA) UNITED NATIONS – Hungarian diplomat Csaba Korosi was elected the president of the upcoming...
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- Peter Thomson of Fiji assumed presidency of the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) here on Tuesday. Thomson was elected president of the 71st UNGA session on June 13. At the time of his election, he served as Fiji's permanen...
In a short, angry speech to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump accused China of spreading the coronavirus, being the world's worst polluter and undermining American support for multilateralism. Delivered via video feed from the White House, the speech ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The president of the General Assembly appealed to the U.N.’s 193 member nations on Thursday to take “concrete actions” to promote peace during next month’s winter Olympics in Beijing.
Notification of candidature would normally go to the UN Secretariat, before the General Assembly president can decide on an election. There is no timeframe for such an election, said Varma. It remains unclear where a replacement will be determined as the current session of the General Assembly ...