Delivered by: His Excellency Sheikh Shakhboot bin Nahyan Al Nahyan, Minister of State of the United Arab Emirates Mr. President, At the outset, I would like to thank His Excellency Dennis Francis for his outstanding leadership of the previous session. I also congratulate His Excellency Philemon Yang on assuming the presidency of the 79th session
The United Arab Emirates has welcomed today’s adoption of the UN General Assembly Resolution on the modalities for the 2026 United Nations Water Conference. Co-hosted by the United Arab Emirates and Senegal, the Conference will be held in the UAE in 2026, and aims to provide a platform for the international community to focus on accelerating
Delivered By: HE Mohamed Abushahab, Ambassador and Permanent Representative Mr. President, I want to begin by thanking Foreign Minister Lavrov and the Russian Presidency for the invitation to participate in this Open Debate on multilateral cooperation. Mr. President, We need to respond to global challenges with more international cooperation and collective action, not less. The
Delivered by: Ahmed AlMahmoud, Political Coordinator and Sanctions Coordinator I’d like to thank Switzerland for convening this meeting. I’d also like to thank the briefers for their insightful contributions. Science, technology, and innovation are progressing at a rate and scale previously unseen. As we heard from our briefers today, there is a growing recognition of
Delivered by HE Mona Al Marri, Vice President of the UAE Gender Balance Council Madame Chair, Your Excellency I thank the Swiss Federation and Her Excellency Viola Amherd for convening us today to discuss this important topic. The UAE also thanks the briefers for their valuable contributions. Today’s meeting is an opportunity to reflect on
Delivered by: Sarah AlAwadhi, Second Secretary Distinguished Co-facilitators, The United Arab Emirates aligns itself with the statements delivered by Uganda on behalf of the G77 and China, and Singapore on behalf of the Small States Group and would like to add additional national remarks. We thank the co-facilitators for their efforts to propose a structure
Delivered by: His Excellency Mohamed Abushahab, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative Mr. President, The United Arab Emirates welcomes today’s unanimous adoption of Security Council resolution 2719. We joined our A3 colleagues in support of this resolution because it marks a historic milestone in our collective pursuit of global peace and security. Throughout this process, the
Delivered by: Aysha AlMenhali, Second Secretary Mr. Chair, I want to express the UAE’s gratitude to Brazil for convening us today. I also extend our thanks to the briefers. Let me begin by stressing the importance of the Peacebuilding Commission on the role it plays in assisting post-conflict and transition countries, to foster peace and
Delivered by: His Excellency Omran Sharaf, Assistant Minister for Advanced Science and Technology Excellencies, distinguished delegates, On behalf of the Permanent Missions of the UAE and Albania, I would like to welcome you to today’s arria-formula meeting on AI and its impact on hate speech, dis-information, and mis-information in the context of the maintenance of
