NOON BRIEFING HIGHLIGHTS

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

Wednesday, 19 April 2023

 

ACCESSIBILITY

In the next hour, President Csaba Kőrösi will host a training session on accessibility and disability awareness.

This session is tailored for delegates of Member States, observers of the General Assembly and representatives of NGOs in consultative status with ECOSOC.

It will be an informal conversation on the human dimension of inclusion, with presentations of good practices, etiquette and communication and protocols.

The meeting will be composed of two segments: one on accessibility of UN meetings, and the other on sensitivity training.

We do expect participation from delegates and UN staff who have disabilities.

This training is jointly organized with DGACM, the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management.

 

BILATERALS

Later this afternoon, President Kőrösi will hold his monthly meeting with the ECOSOC President, Ambassador Lachezara Stoeva.

The President today will also meet with Ambassador Pascale Baeriswyl, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the UN as President of the Security Council for the month of May.

He will have a meeting with Ambassador Alya Bint Ahmed Al-Thani, the Permanent Representative of Qatar.

And Ambassador Rytis Paulauskas, the Permanent Representative of Lithuania.

 

TOWN HALL

Tomorrow, President Kőrösi will host his second townhall with civil society.

The theme is “Midway through the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Push for Accelerated Progress towards the SDGs”.

The townhall will start at 10AM ET in Conference Room 1.

The moderated event will consist of an opening statement by the President of the General Assembly followed by three short keynote statements from civil society representatives, and then a discussion and questions from civil society representatives.

It will be webcast on UN WebTV: https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1j/k1j10tb7j1

 

QUESTIONS

The Spokesperson was asked about comments by the Deputy Secretary-General regarding the Taliban and a possible path to international recognition. The Spokesperson said that was a decision for Member States, and specifically the Credentials Committee.