NOON BRIEFING HIGHLIGHTS
Spokesperson for General Assembly President Csaba Kőrösi
United Nations Headquarters, New York
Friday, 12 May 2023
SALT LAKE CITY
Let me start with a trip announcement.
The President of the General Assembly Csaba Kőrösi will travel to the United States state of Utah for an official visit starting on 14 May.
While in Salt Lake City, he will meet with the Lieutenant Governor Deidre Henderson.
He will also be briefed on the work that Salt Lake City and the state of Utah is doing in terms of water conservation and climate change.
A big focus of the trip will also be on sustainable mountain development.
And how local communities there are contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals.
The President will lecture at Utah Valley University, which is a school that is mentioned in the 2022 Secretary-General’s report on Sustainable Mountain Development.
The President will have an opportunity to hear about some of these projects, and actually see some of the work being done.
The President has made an effort to visit with young people in New York, but also outside of the State. He has been to New Jersey, he’ll be in Utah and there are other travels in the plans.
The President will be back in the office on Wednesday, 17 May.
The costs for this visit are covered by the OPGA Trust Fund.
I will be traveling so I will not brief you here on Monday or Tuesday, but I’ll be available online.
MORNING DIALOGUE
Turning to the President’s schedule today…
This morning, he held a Morning Dialogue with about a dozen Permanent Representatives on rights and responsibilities for a world crisis. This was the continuation of a three-part discussion, that was started on 27 April.
Today’s focus was on human rights.
SECURITY COUNCIL/GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The President then took part in a workshop on relations between the General Assembly and the Security Council, organized by the Permanent Missions of Ecuador and Portugal, and UNITAR.
The President called the General Assembly and the Security Council complementary.
He said that they may have different mandates, but they share one same fundamental goal – “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war”.
He mentioned several avenues of cooperation between the two UN bodies.
Among these, the consideration by the General Assembly of the Council’s annual report, mandated by the UN Charter.
That is scheduled for 30 June.
And I will try to share the President’s full remarks later today.
PGA 78th SESSION CANDIDACY
This afternoon, starting at 3PM ET in the Trusteeship, there will be an interactive dialogue with the candidate for the Presidency of the 78th session.
Mr. Dennis Francis, from Trinidad and Tobago, will deliver his vision statement and then take questions from Member States and civil society.
The election for the new President will be on 1 June.
BILATERALS
Among his bilaterals today, the President will meet today with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori.
This is in context of next week’s high-level meeting.
He will have a meeting with Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj, the Permanent Representative of India.
The President will also be meeting with Ambassador Burhan Gafoor, the Permanent Representative of Singapore. This is in the context of the work of the General Assembly.
NEXT WEEK
And looking to next week…
The event of most interest to you is probably the high-level meeting on the midterm review of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, which be held on 18 and 19 May.
I will include the program with my notes, but just to highlight…
The opening segment will be on Thursday at 10AM ET.
The speakers will include :
- H. E. Mr. Csaba Kőrösi, President of the General Assembly
- H.E. Ms. Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Ms. Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and Head of UNDRR
- Ms. Mwanahamisi Singano, Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism Women and Gender Stakeholder Group and Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
- Mr. Mustafa Kemal Kilinç, Türkiye Earthquake Survivor
As part of the opening segment, Member States are expected to adopt the political declaration of the Midterm Review.
I’ve already been asked about the text, and yes, once it is publicly shared, I will send it to you. I expect that will happen later today.
Shepherding the political declaration is one of the 16 negotiation processes at the General Assembly for which the President had appointed co-facilitators, and this process was led by Ambassador Mitchell Fifield, the Permanent Representative of Australia, and Ambassador Arrmanatha Christiawan Nasir, the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Indonesia.
Much of the two-day event will consist of mutlistakeholder panels.
The closing will be on Friday, 19 May, at 5:45PM. President Korosi and SRSG Mizutori will give closing remarks.
UN WebTV will have show all the segments live and on-demand.
QUESTIONS
There were no questions for the Spokesperson.
