NOON BRIEFING HIGHLIGHTS
Spokesperson for General Assembly President Csaba K?r?si
United Nations Headquarters, New York
Thursday, 6 October 2022
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HUMAN RIGHTS CO蘑菇视频CIL
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I’ll start with the Human Rights Council election.
There have been a couple of questions on whether that will take place as scheduled.
Yes, the elections will be held on Tuesday, 11 October at 10AM.
There are 14 vacant seats and 17 candidates.
The two groups that are contested are the Asia-Pacific States and the Latin American and Caribbean States.
The candidates are online sand I will include a link when I send out the notes: /en/ga/77/meetings/elections/hrc.shtml
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BILATERALS
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Turning to President K?r?si’s schedule today.
He has a number of bilaterals.
Those include with Minister V. Muraleedharan, Minister of State for External Affairs of India.
President K?r?si will meet today in a joint meeting with Ambassador Anna Karin Enestr?m, the Permanent Representative of Sweden, and Sheikha Alya bint Ahmed Al-Thani, the Permanent Representative of Qatar. This is to discuss topics related to Our Common Agenda.
THAILAND
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And you will have seen that President K?r?si expressed his condolences to the people and Government of Thailand, after the attack on a nursery school.
He said he was extremely saddened to hear of the news.
QUESTIONS
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The Spokesperson was asked if President K?r?si had seen the letter purportedly sent to Member States requesting a secret ballot during next week’s Emergency Special Session. The Spokesperson said that the letter was not sent to the President’s office.
The Spokesperson was asked if the President obtained any guidance from OLA on the possibility of a secret ballot and how that would work. The Spokesperson was also asked off-camera about the possibility of OLA doing a background briefing on the issues of secret ballot.