{"id":253520,"date":"2023-05-26T12:46:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T16:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/?p=253520"},"modified":"2023-05-30T09:55:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T13:55:52","slug":"noon-briefing-highlights-26-may-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/2023\/05\/26\/noon-briefing-highlights-26-may-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Noon Briefing Highlights &#8211; 26 May 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>NOON BRIEFING HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Spokesperson for General Assembly President Csaba K\u0151r\u00f6si<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nUnited Nations Headquarters, New York<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Friday, 26 May 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SOMALIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The President of the General Assembly, Csaba K\u0151r\u00f6si, condemns in the strongest possible terms the attacks this morning against the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), and on the adjacent Somali military base.<\/p>\n<p>He expresses his deepest sympathies and condolences to the families of the victims, as well as to the people and governments of Uganda and Somalia. He also wishes a speedy recover to those injured.<\/p>\n<p>Terrorism in all of its forms and manifestations constitutes a grave threat to international peace and security.<\/p>\n<p>The President of the General Assembly underlined the need to bring the perpetrators of these attacks to justice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>NUCLEAR CALL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tuning gears a bit\u2026<\/p>\n<p>President K\u0151r\u00f6si today is once again appealing for an end to nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>In a new statement, the President is reiterating his appeal to all leaders, civil society actors, youth and scientists in the world to raise your voices. And to make a change.<\/p>\n<p>Quote: \u201cWe need to stop the nuclear arms race. We need to come back to the arms control regimes and ensure nuclear safety. It is not a technical issue. It is a matter of clear minds, clear vision, responsibility and survival.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That message is available on social media: <a href=\"https:\/\/eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FUN_PGA%2Fstatus%2F1662076191484829699&amp;data=05%7C01%7Ckubiakp%40un.org%7Ce2d4c3070da44bd4ef2e08db5e083b2c%7C0f9e35db544f4f60bdcc5ea416e6dc70%7C0%7C0%7C638207161671391227%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=cMyjk33f3Ev0eot9uzwhUMkZJFQhNYGmWAoilkwTjuM%3D&amp;reserved=0\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/UN_PGA\/status\/1662076191484829699<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MEETING WITH SG <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Turning to his schedule today.<\/p>\n<p>President K\u0151r\u00f6si met just in the past hour with Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres.<\/p>\n<p>This was their monthly coordination meeting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SDG SUMMIT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The President will meet shortly with his co-facilitators working on the Political Declaration to be adopted at the SDG Summit in September.<\/p>\n<p>Those are Ambassador F<strong>ergal Tomas Mythen, Permanent Representative of Ireland; and Ambassador Alya Ahmed Saif Al-Thani, Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PGA FELLOWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Turning to our PGA Fellows. They are today wrapping up their official visit to Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>They finished the visit with a tour of the African American National Museum.<\/p>\n<p>And I know I speak for everyone on the third floor, when I say that OPGA looks forward to having them all back in the office.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WEEK AHEAD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And looking to next week\u2026<\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Tuesday, 30 May,<\/strong> President K\u0151r\u00f6si will hold a Morning Dialogue discussion with a small group of Ambassadors on \u201chow to renew trust in the implementation of the SDGs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>At 10AM\u2026 the President will take part in the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, which will be held in the GA Hall. The Permanent Forum is led by 10 expert members elected by the General Assembly and appointed by the Human Rights Council. This is the second session that will take place. It will last through Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Later that day, the President will participate in an event related to minority issues. This is an event organized by OSCE, OHCHR and Member States on \u201cPreventive Diplomacy in a Changing Landscape of Modern Conflicts: The Role of the UN and Regional Organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, 31 May\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At 10AM ET \u2026 The General Assembly will hold a plenary with action expected on resolution related to the Fifth Committee\u2026 and that will be followed by continuation of statements from the High-level meetings on the Sendai Framework.<\/p>\n<p>Starting at 3PM ET\u2026 there will be the opening of the 21<sup>st<\/sup> High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, 1 June\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At 10AM\u2026 Member States will elect the President of the General Assembly for the 78<sup>th<\/sup> session.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, 2 June\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Pledging Conference for UNRWA will take place starting at 10AM ET in CR-4. The President will participate in that. As you know, he visited an UNRWA school while in Jordan earlier this month, and spent quite a lot of time with students and staff.<\/p>\n<p>Friday is also World Bicycle Day. There are a number of events. President K\u0151r\u00f6si will be taking part in two of them, around the lunchtime. The President is very physically active, and I believe he will have his bike with him at one of those events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>QUESTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There were no questions for the Spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOON BRIEFING HIGHLIGHTS Spokesperson for General Assembly President Csaba K\u0151r\u00f6si United Nations Headquarters, New York Friday, 26 May 2023 \u00a0 SOMALIA The President of the General Assembly, Csaba K\u0151r\u00f6si, condemns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[613,370,433],"class_list":["post-253520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spokespersons-briefings","tag-nuclear-issues","tag-somalia","tag-week-ahead","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Noon Briefing Highlights - 26 May 2023 - General Assembly of the United Nations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Noon Briefing Highlights - 26 May 2023 - General Assembly of the United Nations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NOON BRIEFING HIGHLIGHTS Spokesperson for General Assembly President Csaba K\u0151r\u00f6si United Nations Headquarters, New York Friday, 26 May 2023 \u00a0 SOMALIA The President of the General Assembly, Csaba K\u0151r\u00f6si, condemns [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/2023\/05\/26\/noon-briefing-highlights-26-may-2023\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"General Assembly of the United Nations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-05-26T16:46:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-05-30T13:55:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Paulina Greer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Paulina Greer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/2023\/05\/26\/noon-briefing-highlights-26-may-2023\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/2023\/05\/26\/noon-briefing-highlights-26-may-2023\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Paulina Greer\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/#\/schema\/person\/25c5989ea34cbca9b6abfb3f464b38b1\"},\"headline\":\"Noon Briefing Highlights &#8211; 26 May 2023\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-05-26T16:46:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-05-30T13:55:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/2023\/05\/26\/noon-briefing-highlights-26-may-2023\/\"},\"wordCount\":687,\"keywords\":[\"nuclear issues\",\"Somalia\",\"Week Ahead\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Spokesperson's Briefings\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/2023\/05\/26\/noon-briefing-highlights-26-may-2023\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/2023\/05\/26\/noon-briefing-highlights-26-may-2023\/\",\"name\":\"Noon Briefing Highlights - 26 May 2023 - General Assembly of the United Nations\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2023-05-26T16:46:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-05-30T13:55:52+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/#\/schema\/person\/25c5989ea34cbca9b6abfb3f464b38b1\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/2023\/05\/26\/noon-briefing-highlights-26-may-2023\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/2023\/05\/26\/noon-briefing-highlights-26-may-2023\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/2023\/05\/26\/noon-briefing-highlights-26-may-2023\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Noon Briefing Highlights &#8211; 26 May 2023\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/\",\"name\":\"General Assembly of the United Nations\",\"description\":\"President of the 77th session\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/#\/schema\/person\/25c5989ea34cbca9b6abfb3f464b38b1\",\"name\":\"Paulina Greer\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/aab26e77bdba8cf226e2792403a458cd44106ad1f229dba0018b0634ef1a6531?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/aab26e77bdba8cf226e2792403a458cd44106ad1f229dba0018b0634ef1a6531?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Paulina Greer\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/author\/kubiakpun-org\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Noon Briefing Highlights - 26 May 2023 - General Assembly of the United Nations","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Noon Briefing Highlights - 26 May 2023 - General Assembly of the United Nations","og_description":"NOON BRIEFING HIGHLIGHTS Spokesperson for General Assembly President Csaba K\u0151r\u00f6si United Nations Headquarters, New York Friday, 26 May 2023 \u00a0 SOMALIA The President of the General Assembly, Csaba K\u0151r\u00f6si, condemns [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/2023\/05\/26\/noon-briefing-highlights-26-may-2023\/","og_site_name":"General Assembly of the United Nations","article_published_time":"2023-05-26T16:46:34+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-05-30T13:55:52+00:00","author":"Paulina Greer","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Paulina Greer","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/2023\/05\/26\/noon-briefing-highlights-26-may-2023\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/2023\/05\/26\/noon-briefing-highlights-26-may-2023\/"},"author":{"name":"Paulina Greer","@id":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/#\/schema\/person\/25c5989ea34cbca9b6abfb3f464b38b1"},"headline":"Noon Briefing Highlights &#8211; 26 May 2023","datePublished":"2023-05-26T16:46:34+00:00","dateModified":"2023-05-30T13:55:52+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/2023\/05\/26\/noon-briefing-highlights-26-may-2023\/"},"wordCount":687,"keywords":["nuclear issues","Somalia","Week Ahead"],"articleSection":["Spokesperson's Briefings"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/2023\/05\/26\/noon-briefing-highlights-26-may-2023\/","url":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/2023\/05\/26\/noon-briefing-highlights-26-may-2023\/","name":"Noon Briefing Highlights - 26 May 2023 - General Assembly of the United Nations","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/#website"},"datePublished":"2023-05-26T16:46:34+00:00","dateModified":"2023-05-30T13:55:52+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/#\/schema\/person\/25c5989ea34cbca9b6abfb3f464b38b1"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/2023\/05\/26\/noon-briefing-highlights-26-may-2023\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/2023\/05\/26\/noon-briefing-highlights-26-may-2023\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/2023\/05\/26\/noon-briefing-highlights-26-may-2023\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Noon Briefing Highlights &#8211; 26 May 2023"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/","name":"General Assembly of the United Nations","description":"President of the 77th session","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/#\/schema\/person\/25c5989ea34cbca9b6abfb3f464b38b1","name":"Paulina Greer","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/aab26e77bdba8cf226e2792403a458cd44106ad1f229dba0018b0634ef1a6531?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/aab26e77bdba8cf226e2792403a458cd44106ad1f229dba0018b0634ef1a6531?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Paulina Greer"},"url":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/author\/kubiakpun-org\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253521,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253520\/revisions\/253521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}