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
NEW YORK – Lana Nusseibeh, the UAE’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, has submitted her credentials as Non-Resident Ambassador to Grenada to the country’s Governor-General, Dame Cecile La Grenade, at her residence in the Grenadian capital, St. George’s. Nusseibeh conveyed the greetings of the President, His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed
NEW YORK – The UAE called on the international community to address the root causes of trafficking in persons in conflict situations at the UN Security Council’s open debate on trafficking in persons in conflict. In her statement, Mrs. Amiera Obaid AlHafeiti, Second Secretary at the Permanent Mission of the UAE to the UN, stressed
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
The United Arab Emirates has reiterated its firm determination to continue working closely with the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, in enhancing nuclear safety. At the 72nd Regular Session of the United Nations General Assembly, which was held in New York, on November 10th, Saod Rashid Al Mazroui, member of the UAE delegation to the
NEW YORK – Member States participating in the UN Pledging Conference for Development Activities unanimously elected Ms. Hessa Al Ateibi, Third Secretary of the Permanent Mission of the UAE to the UN, as one of two Vice-Presidents of the 2017 Pledging Conference. As Vice-President, Ms. Al Ateibi could be tasked by the President of the
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
NEW YORK – The President of the 72nd Session of the UN General Assembly, H.E. Mr. Miroslav Lajčák, has appointed H.E. Mrs. Lana Nusseibeh, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the United Arab Emirates to the UN, as Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiations on UN Security Council reform. Ambassador Nusseibeh is the first Emirati diplomat appointed
