President Ali to deliver addresses at UN General Assembly

-high-level discussions, meetings with world leaders and senior officials also on his agenda

LEADING a Guyanese delegation, President, Dr Irfaan Ali will be in New York, USA, this week for the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and will be engaged in a number of activities.

An official statement from the Office of the President (OP) on Sunday said that President Ali will address the General Debate on September 25, and participate in several bilateral meetings with other Heads of State, such as His Excellency Santiago Pen̵a, President of Paraguay, and His Excellency Daniel Noboa, President of Ecuador.

According to the UN, the General Debate is the annual meeting of Heads of State and Government of the 193 UN member states. It takes place at the beginning of the General Assembly session, often known as UNGA. It is usually the first debate of the session and, with the exception of the concurrent high-level meetings, the only one in which Heads of State and Heads of Government regularly participate.

OP said in its statement that President Ali will also meet with Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken; Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres; Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organization; and USAID Administrator, Samantha Power, among others.

In addition to the General Debate, President Ali is carded to speak at the UN’s Summit of the Future and attend the high-level event on the Global Coalition to Address Synthetic Drug Threats hosted by US President, HE Joseph Biden.

He will also participate in several panel discussions, including an Executive Roundtable discussion hosted by Former US President William (Bill) Clinton, the Clinton Global Initiative’s session on Preserving Our Planet through Sustainable Land Management; Concordia’s Guyana Health Panel with Mr John Hess and Mount Sinai, and The New York Times Climate Forward event.

He is also slated to be a guest speaker on “Creating a New Narrative for Agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)” at Colombia University, on the invitation of the Colombia Climate School and IICA, OP said.

Further, former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife, Mrs. Brown, are expected to hold a high-level session on Sustainable Development Goal 4: Educating for the Next Generation, which the President is expected to attend.

President Ali, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation, Hugh Todd and other members of the delegation arrived in New York on Sunday and will depart on September 26.

From the UNGA, President Ali is expected to travel to the United Kingdom on the invitation of Concordia and Oxford University to address climate studies students on the Guyana case study and its Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) model.

While in the United Kingdom, President Ali is scheduled to meet with newly appointed Foreign Secretary David Lammy and receive the People’s Choice Award as the Caribbean’s Global Leader 2024.

Prior to his UNGA engagements, President Ali was received by His Royal Highness, King Charles III, as a special guest at his Balmoral, Scotland home. Talks centred on our efforts to combat climate change and the achievements of the country’s LCDS.

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