Yesterday, the United Arab Emirates assumed the presidency of the United Nations Security Council for the month of March. Addressing recent developments on global security issues will top priorities during the month.
"We are assuming the Presidency of the Security Council at a time of immense global turbulence," said Lana Nusseibeh, Permanent Representative of the UAE to the UN. "We face a number of crises on the Council agenda, and we will manage the program of work with the flexibility that the current moment demands."
In its capacity as president, the UAE will set the Council’s program of work for March in agreement with other members and will chair meetings to develop collective responses to urgent global security challenges. This includes facilitating the adoption of resolutions and other Council products.
The UAE will host a briefing on strengthening cooperation between the Security Council and the League of Arab States to promote regional stability on 23 March.
The meeting will be chaired by Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar, UAE Minister of State. UN Secretary-General António Guterres and League of Arab States Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit will be among the briefers.
The UAE will also organize an Arria-formula meeting, an informal meeting of Security Council members, on 9 March chaired by Dr. Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, and Special Envoy for Climate Change.
The meeting will explore how to support climate finance efforts to build and sustain peace in conflict, crisis, and post-conflict settings.
The UAE as well will convene a ministerial-level Security Council open debate chaired by Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri, Minister of Climate Change and the Environment, on International Women’s Day.
The debate’s focus will be the importance of women’s economic inclusion and private sector partnerships for the prevention of conflict and for post-conflict recovery.
Briefers will include UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, and a civil society briefer.
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