NOON BRIEFING HIGHLIGHTS BY PAULINA KUBIAK GREER,
SPOKESPERSON FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT ABDULLA SHAHID
United Nations Headquarters, New York

AZERBAIJAN

The President of the General Assembly, Abdulla Shahid, will make an official visit to Azerbaijan.

He will be in Baku from 12 to 13 June, at the invitation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

President Shahid is scheduled to meet with President Ilham Aliyev, and will meet with the Minister of Foreign Affairs Jeyhun Bayramov.

The President of the General Assembly is also expected to meet with the Chair of the Parliament, Ms. Sahiba Gafarova.

During his visit, her will engage with young people and academics at the ADA University, formerly known as the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy.

President Shahid will also meet with the UN Country Team, led by the Resident Coordinator, Ms. Vladanka Andreeva.

The costs of the trip are paid for by the Government and the OPGA Trust Fund.

 

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Today in the General Assembly Hall, Member States voted for ECOSOC members for the 2023-2025 term. These are three-year terms.

The votes are still being counted in this hour, but I will email out the results.

[Official results for the elections, except for the results of the third targeted round in the Eastern European States’ group between Russia and North Macedonia:

African States: Botswana, Cabo Verde, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea

Asia-Pacific States: China, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Qatar and Republic of Korea

*Eastern European States: Slovakia and Slovenia + 1 ongoing vote

 Latin American and Caribbean States: Brazil, Colombia and Costa Rica

Western European and other States: Denmark, Greece, New Zealand and Sweden

Also today, the General Assembly adopted by consensus the draft resolution on multilingualism, A/76/L.57.

The General Assembly then resumed the debate from 8 June on in the context of resolution 76/262, the so-called Veto Initiative.

Ambassador Kennedy Godfrey Gastorn, the Permanent Representative of Tanzania, is overseeing today’s General Assembly – both the morning and afternoon sessions.

 

NEXT WEEK

Looking to next week,

On Monday, 13 June, at 10AM ET in the Trusteeship… there will be an informal meeting of the General Assembly to hear from the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Myanmar.

 

QUESTIONS

There were no questions for the Spokesperson.