NOON BRIEFING HIGHLIGHTS

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

Friday, 24 February 2023

 

Thanks very much to BCSS colleagues for working to patch me in.

 

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Starting with the General Assembly this afternoon…

At 3PM, Member States are expected to take action on a draft resolution related the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia. This is under agenda item 58, peacebuilding and sustaining peace.

Member States will then resume explanations of vote after the vote on draft resolutions related to item 127, cooperation between the United Nations and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

That will be followed by action on draft resolutions related to global health and foreign policy.

That will include modalities for the high-level meeting on Tuberculosis, which will take place during UNGA High level week this September.

 

BILATERALS

Turning to bilaterals…

President Csaba Kőrösi today met with Mr. Urmas Reinsalu, the Foreign Minister of Estonia.

The war in Ukraine and the Emergency Special Session were the main topics discussed.

Yesterday, President Korosi met with Mr. Dmytro Kuleba, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

He also met with Mr. Antonio Tajani, that Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Those meetings were held in the context of the Emergency Special Session.

Today, the President will also meet with A.K. Abul Momen, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh.

Topics are expected to include the South South Cooperation Ministerial Forum and financing for the SDGs.

Later today, the President will meet with Ambassador Jamal F Alrowaiei, the Permanent Representative of Bahrain.

He will also speak with Mr. Costantinos Maglaras, the Dean of Columbia Business School.

 

WEEK AHEAD

Looking ahead to the first few days of next week..

You know that President Kőrösi is in Geneva next week.

On Monday, 27 February, he will open the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council… speaking alongside the President of the Council Václav Bálek, Secretary-General António Guterres, and the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk.

During his address, President Kőrösi is expected to urge Member States to renew their commitments to the promotion and protection of human rights as a step in managing interlinked and complex crises.

He will also have a briefing to Member States and heads of Geneva-based International Organizations.

As well as a townhall with civil society organizations in Geneva.

On Tuesday, President Kőrösi will speak to the press at the Palais at 3:15PM CET on the UN Water Conference and other issues.

The President will have a schedule packed with bilaterals.

In the evening, he will speak on “Crisis management and transformation for the UN we need” at an event hosted by the Geneva Diplomatic Club, Global Studies Institute of the University of Geneva and the Forum Suisse de Politique Internacionale.

Detail in a media advisory from Wednesday: https://www.un.org/pga/77/2023/02/22/un-general-assembly-president-to-address-human-rights-council-in-geneva/

The President then heads on 1 March to Baku. You will have more details in a media advisory next week.

 

QUESTIONS

 

There were no questions for the Spokesperson.