UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Security Council will hold a high-level summit at the annual meeting of world leaders at the General Assembly later this month to discuss threats to global security after the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Niger’s ambassador to the UN, Abdou Abarry, who assumed the rotating presidency of the Council on Tuesday, said at a virtual press convention on Tuesday that the assembly of the UN’s highest toughness framework will be held online on 24 September.
Abarry said the assembly “on post-COVID-19 global governance in relation to the maintenance of foreign peace and security” will confront classic security threats such as fighting, but also crime and pandemics, as well as “adjustments” to the existing foreign system.
He said that Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou, who will preside over the meeting, is sending an invitation to the leaders of the other 14 Security Council member countries.Some countries, which he has appointed, have already indicated that their heads of state will attend, he said.
Abarry said that a key challenge after the coronavirus pandemic is: “Are we going to design a more resilient, fairer, fairer world with less environmental destruction among others, and that can in and facilitate human life in harmony and with nature??”
In recent years, the Security Council held an assembly on a theme selected through its rotating president for September at the high-level assembly of the General Assembly, which brings together thousands more at the UN headquarters in New York.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the high-level assembly will be completely online.
U.S. President Donald Trump chaired a high-level Security Council assembly on combating nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, the U.S. presidency of the Council in September 2018, while Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama chaired the Security Council assemblies in 2009 and 2014.
Last year, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov chaired a Council ministerial assembly on the contribution of 3 regional organizations to which Moscow is in combating terrorist threats.
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