Making the United Nations Relevant to all PeoplePRESS BRIEFING BY MONICA GRAYLEY, SPOKESPERSON FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT MARÍA FERNANDA ESPINOSA
Good afternoon, everyone!
I hope you are doing well. I will start the briefing today with two notes and afterwards you will hear from the Spokesperson to the Secretary-General and the Special Representative for International Migration, Ms. Louise Arbour.
PGA COMMENDS CANADA ON MULTILATERALISM, SUPPORT FOR GLOBAL COMPACT FOR MIGRATION AND GENDER EQUALITY
The President of the General Assembly is back in the office this morning after her official trip to Canada yesterday. Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and commended his role in the promotion of a stronger multilateralism, gender equality, and for his support for the Global Compact for Migration, as well as tackling climate change.
Ms. Espinosa and Mr. Trudeau discussed the upcoming Intergovernmental Conference on the Global Compact for Migration in Morocco, which will take place in Marrakech, in December. The PGA and the Prime Minister talked about the UN Conference on Climate Change, COP-24, in Katowice, Poland, which Ms. Espinosa will attend. The PGA was particularly grateful for the opportunity to talk directly to women migrants at the Bruyere Centre for Immigrants, an Immigrant Women Services Ottawa (IWSO). Most of the women had suffered violence before arriving at the centre and are now trying to integrate and settle into a new life in Canada.
PGA’s AGENDA
Ms. Espinosa started her day meeting the Permanent Representatives of Lithuania and Uganda to discuss the preparations for the High-Level Conference on South-South Cooperation, which is scheduled to take place in March, in Argentina (The negotiations for the draft outcome document of the Second High-Level United Nations High-level on South-South Cooperation, to be held on 20-22 March 2019: (the PRs of Uganda, H.E. Mr. Adonia Ayebare, and of Lithuania, H.E. Ms. Audra Plepytė). After this, she will receive H.E Ambassador Luis Gallegos of Ecuador at her office, followed by a meeting with the President of ECOSOC, Ambassador Inga Rhonda King and a luncheon with the Representative of the European Union to the UN, Ambassador João Vale de Almeida. In the afternoon, the PGA will attend a meeting on the GA Briefing by the SG on the process of reform, at the Trusteeship Council, at 2.15 p.m, and, after that, she will receive His Majesty, King Letsie III of Lesotho in her office. This is all from us today. I am now happy to take your questions.
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