{"id":140305,"date":"2018-02-23T15:39:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T20:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/72\/?p=140305"},"modified":"2018-06-18T18:59:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T22:59:15","slug":"highlights-of-press-briefing-by-spokesperson-23-february-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/72\/2018\/02\/23\/highlights-of-press-briefing-by-spokesperson-23-february-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"HIGHLIGHTS OF PRESS BRIEFING BY SPOKESPERSON \u2013 23 FEBRUARY 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;2_3&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.87&#8243; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1><strong>HIGHLIGHTS OF PRESS BRIEFING BY BRENDEN VARMA,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>SPOKESPERSON FOR <\/strong><strong>GENERAL ASSEMBLY <\/strong><strong>PRESIDENT <\/strong><strong>MIROSLAV LAJ\u010c\u00c1K <\/strong><\/h1>\n<div class=\"post-meta vcard\">\n<p><strong>United Nations Headquarters, New York<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span class=\"updated\">23 February 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.87&#8243; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3><strong>PRESIDENT TO HEAD TO GENEVA AND ADDIS ABABA<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/pga\/72?p=140297\">The President will be in Geneva, Switzerland<\/a>, from 26 to 27 February. There he will address the opening of the 37th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Council\u2019s Annual High-level Panel on Human Rights Mainstreaming and the Conference on Disarmament.<\/li>\n<li>He is also expected to hold a number of bilateral meetings, including with: the President of Austria; the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina; the Chief Executive of Afghanistan; the Foreign Ministers of Ecuador and Norway; and the Vice Foreign Minister of Japan.<\/li>\n<li>From Geneva, the President will head to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. There he will meet with officials from the African Union Commission, the Government of Ethiopia and the UN Country Team. A major focus of this visit will be African perspectives on peacebuilding and sustaining peace.<\/li>\n<li>The President will be back in his office in New York on 5 March.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>PRESIDENT DISCUSSES MULTILATERALISM WITH U.N. 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