{"id":203077,"date":"2019-08-29T14:02:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T18:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/73\/?p=203077"},"modified":"2019-09-04T14:42:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T18:42:43","slug":"press-briefing-by-spokesperson-29-august-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/73\/2019\/08\/29\/press-briefing-by-spokesperson-29-august-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Briefing by Spokesperson \u2013 29 August 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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PRESS BRIEFING BY MONICA GRAYLEY,\u00a0<\/strong>SPOKESPERSON FOR <\/strong>GENERAL ASSEMBLY <\/strong>PRESIDENT MAR\u00cdA FERNANDA ESPINOSA<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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29 August 2019<\/span><\/p>\n

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Good afternoon, everyone!<\/em><\/p>\n

We will start today with a trip announcement, which is scheduled to be the last official travel for the PGA.<\/em><\/p>\n

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GA PRESIDENT WILL TRAVEL TO REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA AND KINGDOM OF NETHERLANDS<\/strong><\/p>\n

The President of the General Assembly will travel to the Republic of Slovenia on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Ms. Mar\u00eda Fernanda Espinosa has been invited by the country\u2019s President, H.E. Mr. Borut Pahor, to speak at the opening of the Bled Strategic Forum which will take place from 2 to 3 September.<\/p>\n

The PGA will arrive in Ljubljana on Sunday afternoon, when she will meet with young participants\u00a0attending the\u00a0Bled Strategic Forum.<\/p>\n

On Monday, 2 September, the PGA will meet with Slovenia\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, H.E. Mr. Miro Cerar. \u00a0Ms. Espinosa will be received by President Pahor before officially opening the Bled Strategic Forum.<\/p>\n

Ms. Espinosa will also take part in the Presidential Talk, which will be attended by the President of Estonia, H.E. Ms. Kersti Kaljulaid and President Pahor.<\/p>\n

The PGA will later take part in a panel\u00a0titled;\u00a0\u201cMultilateralism at Crossroads\u201d.<\/p>\n

She will also meet the Prime Minister of Slovenia, Mr. Marjan Sarec.<\/p>\n

The PGA will conclude her day by attending a panel on sustainability before leaving Ljubljana on Tuesday morning, when she travels to the Kingdom of the Netherlands. She will travel to the Hague to attend the Second World Meeting of Societies for International Law. She will be in the Netherlands from 3 to 4 September.<\/p>\n

More details on her travel to the Hague will be brought to you next week.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, Friday, the PGA will be in the office to continue her working agenda after concluding her official travel to Salt Lake City, where she took part in the 68th<\/sup>\u00a0Civil Society Conference.<\/p>\n

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PGA MARKS\u00a0<\/strong>DAY AGAINST NUCLEAR TESTS ASKING FOR SIGNING AND RATIFICATION OF INTERNATIONAL TREATY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ms. Espinosa is marking this International Day Against\u00a0Nuclear Tests by urging all States, that have not done so, to sign and ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.<\/p>\n

In a message, the President of the General Assembly appealed to the international community to make progress on the shared vision of a world free of nuclear weapons, which was set out in the very first resolution of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ General Assembly.<\/p>\n

Since 1945, approximately 2,000 nuclear tests\u00a0have been\u00a0conducted around the globe.<\/p>\n

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ estimates that the world still has\u00a0about 14,000 nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

This year, the GA will commemorate the day on 9 September holding\u00a0a high-level plenary meeting on the issue.<\/p>\n

President Espinosa will be joined by the Secretary-General, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, and Dr. Lassina Zerbo, who is the Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO).<\/p>\n

They will deliver opening statements during the meeting. More information on our website:\u00a0www.un.org\/pga\/73<\/a><\/p>\n

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