A high-level virtual event exploring actions needed to boost the resilience and sustainability of the world’s oceans in line with Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water.
Date: Tuesday, 1 June 2021
Time: 10:00 AM - 13:00 PM (UTC+8)
In this high-level thematic debate convened by the President of the United Nations General Assembly, Volkan Bozkır, with support from the Governments of Portugal and Kenya (co-hosts of the 2nd United Nations Ocean Conference), as well as the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Oceans, H.E. Mr. Peter Thomson, four multi-stakeholder panels will address progress on relevant targets of SDG14 and the 2030 Agenda more broadly.
"When an incumbent President of the UN General Assembly makes misleading & prejudiced remarks, he does a great disservice to the office he occupies", said MEA
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UNGA to ensure a better future for Rohingays, says Volkan Bozkır
Diplomatic Correspondent
27th May, 2021 06:15:23
The President of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly, Volkan Bozkır has expressed determination to ensure a better future for the forcible displaced Myanmar nationals, who took temporary shelter amid ethnic cleansing and genocide in Rakhine state.
“…the world has not forgotten the plight of the Rohingya people and that the United Nations General Assembly is determined to ensure a better future for them,” he said during interaction with the Rohingya representatives in Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday (May 26).
Volkan Bozkır paid an official visit to Bangladesh on May 25-26 upon invitation of the government, said the UN on Thursday.