Madame Executive Director, Madame President, Excellencies, colleagues, 2018 marks the final and 6th year of the UAE’s term on the Executive Board. Having served as a Member, Vice-President, and President of the Board during this time, the UAE stands firm in its commitment to UN-Women as the UN’s leading agency dedicated to achieving gender equality
Mr. President, On behalf of the Arab Group, I want to express my sincere thanks and gratitude for convening this important session. I congratulate you on your presidency of the Security Council for this month. I would also like to thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Nikolay Mladenov, on his
Your Highness Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Your Excellency Dr. Amal Al Qubaisi, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, I am honored to be here today with so many champions of gender equality and women’s empowerment, and would like to thank the co-conveners of this conference: the General Women’s Union and Her Excellency Noura Al Suwaidi,
Thank you, Your Excellency. The United Arab Emirates is honored to announce a multi-year contribution to the CERF, starting with 1.5 million dollars in 2018 and increasing in 250,000 increments to 2 million dollars in 2020. This year marks our 11th consecutive year of contributing to the CERF. Our experience has led us to view
The United Arab Emirates is proud to join other Member States in co-sponsoring this resolution, and we congratulate our coordinator for navigating many different perspectives in order to produce a vision that is both ambitious and universally acceptable. Especially in the context of so many humanitarian crises, the resolution is an important reminder of all
Your Excellencies, Thank you for convening this event and for the opportunity to add the United Arab Emirates’ support – as well as our condolences – to the countries and communities devastated by the recent hurricanes. As announced during the UNGA, the UAE is honored to commit 10 million US dollars to recovery and prevention
Mr. President, On behalf of the United Arab Emirates, I congratulate Italy on its presidency of the Council and applaud its convening of this meeting on human trafficking in conflict situations. I would like to thank the Secretary-General and all of the other briefers that we have heard from today. This crime’s reach extends to
Mr. President, My delegation is delighted to join others today in this year’s pledging conference, and to reaffirm its commitment to supporting the United Nations development activities. Mr. President, the confirmed contributions at this stage from the United Arab Emirates for 2018 are as follows: United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of
On behalf of the United Arab Emirates, I congratulate France on its Presidency of the Council, and I thank Secretary-General António Guterres, Special Representative Virginia Gamba, and Mr. Mubin Shaikh for their briefings today. The UAE believes our collective priority must be to promote peace and stability to ensure a better future for younger generations.
