PRESS BRIEFING BY AMY QUANTRILL, DEPUTY SPOKESPERSON?FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT VOLKAN BOZKIR
PRESIDENT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESS BRIEFING TOMORROW
- On 9 September at 12 PM the President of the 75th session of the General Assembly, H.E. Mr. Volkan Bozkir will give a final press conference in the press briefing room. It is a hybrid event so journalists can join remotely. The President will make brief opening remarks and then take questions. Please indicate to the Spokesperson any questions in advance.
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GENERAL ASSEMBLY HIGH-LEVEL PLENARY TO COMMEMORATE AND PROMOTE THE INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST NUCLEAR TESTS
- This morning the President spoke at the General Assembly High-level plenary meeting to commemorate and promote the International Day against Nuclear Tests. Since nuclear weapons testing began on 16 July 1945, over 2,000 have taken place.
- The President said: ¡°These tests have long lasting health and environmental consequences. They devastate the communities they impact. They displace families from their homelands.¡±
- The President welcomed the progress that has been achieved towards nuclear disarmament in the past year and urged for postponed meetings to be rearranged.
- In the context of this High-level meeting, the President met with Dr. Rob Floyd, Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization & thanked him for his efforts towards eliminating nuclear threats.
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?ANNOÄ¢¹½ÊÓƵCEMENT OF THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE 76TH ?SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
- Finally, I am happy to announce that my successor will be Monica Villela Grayley, who will take over as the Spokesperson to the next PGA on 14 September.
- Many of you will remember Monica as the spokesperson for the President of the 73rd session of the GA, Ms. Mar¨ªa Fernanda Espinosa.?Monica will join OPGA from the Global Department of Communications, DGC, and has served the United Nations as Chief of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ News Portuguese, Director of the United Nations Information Centre (Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵIC) in Mexico, among other posts. Prior to joining the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, she worked for the BBC World Service, in London, as a multimedia journalist and an editor, in the 1990¡¯s she served as a producer at Deutsche Welle in Germany. ?Monica started her career as a radio talk show hostess in Brazil, where she also worked for TV and press. She is fluent in Spanish, German, Portuguese and English and utilizes French as a working language in the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ.
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HIGH-LEVEL WEEK
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- When asked about the Food Systems Summit, the Spokesperson can confirm it will take place virtually on 23 September /en/food-systems-summit
- When asked about the High-level Dialogue on Energy, the Spokesperson can confirm it will take place virtually on 24 September /en/conferences/energy2021
