General Assembly President Says Cooperation ‘Paramount’ to Strengthening Trust in United Nations, Calls for Improved Consensus-Building The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) opened its seventy-sixth session today, with delegates emphasizing the importance of protecting the most vulnerable groups — women, children, older persons, indigenous people and minorities among them — as the pandemic continued […]
Month: October 2021
Mohamed Hilale (Morocco), Chair of First Committee
Omar Hilale, Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations, was elected Chair of the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) on 7 June. (See Press Release GA/12332.) Before his current appointment in April 2014, Mr. Hilale served as Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva beginning in November 2008, having previously been Secretary-General in his country’s Ministry of […]
Ethiopia to expel seven senior UN staff for ‘meddling’: Foreign Ministry
Ethiopia said it would expel seven senior UN officials for “meddling” in its affairs, ratcheting up worries over the humanitarian response in the war-torn and famine-threatened Tigray region. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was “shocked” by the decision, expressed full confidence in his staff in Ethiopia and said the UN was engaging with the […]
UN: Ethiopia’s Expulsion of Its Officials Imperils Humanitarian Operations
GENEVA — The United Nations is calling on the Ethiopian government to rescind its decision to expel top U.N. officials from the country, warning the action puts life-saving humanitarian operations at risk. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Geneva. On Thursday, the Ethiopian government told seven senior officials, including the heads of the U.N. Children’s […]
UN Says Ethiopia Has No Legal Right to Expel its Officials
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed that Ethiopia has no legal right to expel seven U.N. humanitarian officials. Guterres told the Ethiopian leader in a phone conversation Friday that the world body does not accept Ethiopia’s decision to expel the senior U.N. officials, according to U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq. Haq […]
3rd Irreechaa Peace Forum Underway
The 3rd Irreechaa Peace Forum underway under the theme: “Irreechaa from Articulation of Thanksgiving and Praying to Peace and Unity Building Social Mechanism.” Irreechaa, Thanksgiving Day of Oromo people, is annually celebrated in Addis Ababa and Bishoftu town of Oromia to mark the end of the rainy season and the beginning of the harvesting season. […]