Mozambique: Prime Minister to attend United Nations General Assembly in New York
Prime Minister of Mozambique.
Representing President Filipe Nyusi, Adriano Maleiane will, before giving his address to the General Assembly on Saturday, carry out numerous engagements, participating in the many forums that characterise UN General Assembly sessions.
Among these are a reflection on the Sustainable Development Goals, the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious or Linguistic Minorities and the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.
Bilateral meetings with the Director General of the International Organisation for Migration and with government representatives from several countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Europe, are also on the prime minister’s agenda.
A press release from the Prime Minister’s Office indicates that Maleiane is travelling to New York on behalf of the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi. According to the same statement, Adriano Maleiane will, in his address on Saturday, present Mozambique’s stage of development in the context of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, reiterating the country’s commitment to the implementation of that instrument, with the emphasis on the expansion of health, banking, the judicial system and electricity network, as well as the consolidation of food production programs to eradicate hunger and chronic malnutrition, promoting peace and sustainable and inclusive development.
Maleiane arrives in New York at the head of a delegation that includes deputy ministers of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Manuel Gonçalves, and of Education and Human Development, Manuel Bazo, and also the Ambassador of Mozambique to the United Nations, Pedro Commissário.
The general debate of the 77th UN General Assembly began on Tuesday with the speech given by the President of Brazil, a tradition followed since 1949, on which occasion Jair Bolsonaro said that finding answers to the main global challenges was a collective responsibility.
This year, the High Level session of the UN General Assembly is held under the theme: “A Watershed Moment: Transformative Solutions to Interlocking Challenges”.
This is the first session in which Mozambique will participate since being elected a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council on June 9 of this year.
It is also the first session led by the new President of the UN General Assembly, Csaba Kőrösi, from Hungary, elected last June and sworn in last week.
It is also the first session to take place since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, which has been the dominant theme of the various speeches made in the General Assembly.
In response to polarised views about this conflict, the presidents of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and of China, Xi-Jinping, have already announced that they will not take part in the session, notable absences from the 77th UN General Assembly, which otherwise counts at least 130 heads of state and government among the attendees.
Source: Rádio Moçambique / Notícias
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