NOON BRIEFING HIGHLIGHTS

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

Thursday, 6 April 2023

 

SECURITY COUNCIL REFORM

I would like to start today with Security Council Reform.

As you know, the co-chairs of the Intergovernmental Negotiations on this topic recommended that portions of their discussions webcast, and that a specific website be created to act as a PKUMember States, and other documents related to the IGN process.

That website is now up and running in all the official languages.

I will include this link in my notes: Security Council Reform | General Assembly of the United Nations

 

UN WATER

Later today…

President Csaba Kőrösi will today meet with the co-hosts and the co-chairs of the UN Water Conference.

The goal is to plan next steps and the way forward, particularly on the Water Action Agenda.

 

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

Also today, President Kőrösi is meeting with the Ambassador Dennis Francis, the Permanent Representative of Trinidad and Tobago.

As you know, the President of the seventy-eighth session of the General Assembly is to be elected from the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States.

That election is set for 1 June at 10AM.

 

WEEK AHEAD

On Monday, 10 April, President Kőrösi will address the Model UN New York Conference B.

This is simulation developed with the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).

The President will speak at the Opening Ceremony outside of the UN.

On Tuesday, 11 April, the President will meet with the Bureau of the General Assembly’s Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. This will be a bilateral meeting, but I wanted to highlight it given your interest in the region.

On Wednesday, 12 April, is the Second Science Briefing. This will be an all-day event in the Trusteeship.

President Kőrösi will give opening remarks. There will then be three panels:

  • “Beyond GDP: How we measure matters”
  • “Food Security and Sustainability Transformation”
  • “Scientific Support System at the UN: A new science-based ‘normal’”?

More information about the Science Briefings is available at https://www.un.org/pga/77/science-briefings/

Friday, 14 April in the General Assembly commemoration of the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Geonodicde against the Tutsi in Rwanda. The commemoration will begin at 11AM in the GA Hall. The genocide began on 7 April, which is the national mourning period or Kwibuka, and lasted 100 days.

 

QUESTIONS

There were no questions for the Spokesperson.