NOON BRIEFING HIGHLIGHTS

Spokesperson for General Assembly President Csaba Kőrösi
United Nations Headquarters, New York

Thursday, 12 January 2023

You will shortly be joined by Stephane and today’s guests:

  1. Mr. John Wilmoth, Director of Population Division, UN DESA
  2. Ms. Daniela Bas, Director of Division for Inclusive Social Development, UN DESA
  3. Mr. Shantanu Mukherjee, Director of Economic Analysis and Policy Division, UN DESA

G77 AND CHINA CHAIRMANSHIP

 President Csaba Kőrösi will this afternoon address the handover of the Chairmanship of the G77 and China, from Pakistan to Cuba.

That’s at 3PM in the Trusteeship.

Ahead of that event, the President met with the Foreign Minister of Cuba, Mr. Bruno Rodrigez Parilla this morning, in the context of the handover.

 

COLOMBIA

Also today, President Kőrösi will meet with Colombia’s Vice-President Francia Márquez and Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva.

Vice-President Márquez had addressed the Security Council yesterday. Their discussion today will touch on her address and the transformative concept of “total peace”, as well as topics of gender, climate change and water management, among other issues.

 

ECUADOR

This afternoon, President Kőrösi will meet with the Foreign Minister of Ecuador, Juan Carlos Holguin.

The meeting provides an opportunity to discuss Ecuador’s membership of the Security Council, its priorities for the remainder of the 77th session as well as the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

 

JAPAN

Turning to the Presidency of the Security Council…

President Kőrösi met with Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi of Japan.

They discussed Security Council reform and the revitalization of the General Assembly.

 

YOUTH FELLOWS

On the issue of the President’s Fellowship programs.

The six young diplomats from Armenia, Botswana, Cuba, the Maldives, Rwanda and Samoa, will arrive in New York next week.

The Fellowship is one of the topics that the President will discuss today, in a meeting with  Ignazio Cassis, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland.


BILATERALS

In terms of what else is on the President’s agenda…

On water and climate issues, President Kőrösi today meets with the Special Envoy of the President of Tajikistan on water and climate issues; Sulton Rahimzoda

He will also meet with the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC); Mirjana Spoljaric.

 

MODEL UN

This evening, President Kőrösi will speak to some 600 high school students at the Columbia Model United Nations Conference and Exposition.

I will share his remarks once given.

 

QUESTIONS

There were no questions for the Spokesperson.