{"id":173238,"date":"2018-12-12T17:04:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T22:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/73\/?p=173238"},"modified":"2018-12-12T17:04:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T22:04:55","slug":"note-to-correspondents-un-assembly-president-heads-to-qatar-for-official-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/73\/2018\/12\/12\/note-to-correspondents-un-assembly-president-heads-to-qatar-for-official-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS: Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT HEADS TO QATAR FOR OFFICIAL VISIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.4&#8243; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right\">NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS<\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>PRESIDENT TO ATTEND DOHA FORUM AND <\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>ADDRESS CHALLENGES TO MULTILATERALISM AT QATAR Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵIVERSITY<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"post-meta vcard\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.4&#8243; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>United Nations, New York, 12 December 2018\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 The President of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, H.E. Ms. Mar\u00eda Fernanda Espinosa, will travel to Qatar, where she will begin an official visit on 13 December.<\/p>\n<p>In Doha, The President of the General Assembly will be a guest speaker at the Doha Forum and meet with representatives of the Qatari government.\u00a0 The PGA will also visit a Centre for People with Disabilities and the Qatar Foundation for Social Work. Ms. Espinosa will attend an event at the Qatar National Library and visit the Museum of Islamic Art.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Espinosa will be a guest speaker at the seminar, \u201cMultilateralism under Threat: the challenges facing the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ in the lead-up to its 75<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary\u201d. The event is being organised by the College of Law at Qatar University.\u00a0 She will return to New York on 16 December.<\/p>\n<p>The PGA\u2019s delegation includes her Chef de Cabinet, H.E. Kwabena Osei-Danquah, her adviser on Peace and Security, Sarah Al-Emadi, Communications Adviser, Denise Kling as well as her Personal Assistant, Carolina Nazzaro. All travel costs are covered by the State of Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><strong>For media inquiries and interview requests, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mark Seddon, Media Adviser to the President of the General Assembly, <a href=\"mailto:seddon@un.org\">seddon@un.org;\u00a0<\/a>Mobile: 917 378 1659<\/p>\n<p>Monica Grayley, Spokesperson to the President of the General Assembly, <a href=\"mailto:Grayley@un.org\">Grayley@un.org;\u00a0<\/a>Telephone: +1 212 963 6988.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/73\/\">https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/73\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ_PGA\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ_PGA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Instagram:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/unpga\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/unpga<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>YouTube:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2S7Wl3q\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2S7Wl3q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row_empty\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS\u00a0PRESIDENT TO ATTEND DOHA FORUM AND ADDRESS CHALLENGES TO MULTILATERALISM AT QATAR Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵIVERSITY\u00a0 United Nations, New York, 12 December 2018\u00a0\u2013 The President of the 73rd session of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pressreleases","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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