Rattray appointed UN representative for least-developed countries jamaicaobserver.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jamaicaobserver.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
PM congratulates Courtenay Rattray on new appointment Monday, April 26, 2021
KINGSTON, Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness has congratulated Jamaica s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Courtenay Rattray, on his new appointment as high representative on behalf of least developed countries, landlocked countries and small island developing states.
Rattray will succeed Fekitamoeloa Katoa Utoikamanu of Tonga.
In a tweet this afternoon, Holness said, “Having recognised your service to Jamaica with the conferral of the Order of Distinction Commander Class just last year, we are proud that your excellence in diplomacy has also been recognized by UN Secretary-General António Guterres and will be deployed in an even wider context on behalf of so many. We wish you all the very best!”
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Government representatives express support at New York briefing
10 April 2021, New York/Rome - Progress made by countries in fighting poverty and hunger under FAO s flagship Hand-In-Hand Initiative during the last 18 months came under the spotlight at a technical briefing organized by FAO s Liaison Office in New York and the UN Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS).
Thursday s event also saw the collaboration of the Chairs of the Groups of LDCs and LLDCs and of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS).
FAO Director-General QU Dongyu launched the Hand-in-Hand (HIH) Initiative in late 2019 shortly after taking office at the helm of the Rome-based UN agency. This initiative helps countries develop ambitious evidence-based, country-led, and country-owned programmes to eradicate poverty (SDG 1) and end hunger and all forms of malnutrition (SDG 2). To date, 36 countries part
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FAO s flagship Hand-In-Hand initiative aimed at eradicating poverty and hunger builds momentum
10 April 2021, New York/Rome - Progress made by countries in fighting poverty and hunger under FAO s flagship Hand-In-Hand Initiative during the last 18 months came under the spotlight at a technical briefing organized by FAO s Liaison Office in New York and the UN Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS).
Thursday s event also saw the collaboration of the Chairs of the Groups of LDCs and LLDCs and of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS).