Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed has been named in a new Team of External Advisors formed by the President of the General Assembly of the United Nations, H.E. Mr. Miroslav Lajčák,
Their role will be to advise him on how best to advance his priorities for the General Assembly’s 72nd session.
Those priorities include mediation, conflict prevention and sustaining peace; migration; implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement on climate change; human rights and human dignity; and the future and reform of the United Nations.
The first meeting of the Team of External Advisors will take place in New York on 6 October.
It will include a discussion on a wide range of global political issues, impressions of the General Assembly’s recently concluded high-level week, the messages emanating from the General Debate and principal international challenges ahead.
The list presently consists of 15 eminent personalities from all United Nations regional groups.
As responses are still expected from some esteemed personalities, the list is not final and may be expanded at a later date.
Her appointment comes barely a month after Tourism CS Najib Balala was elected Chairperson of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Commission for Africa for 2017 – 2019.
In January 2017, Ms Mohamed lost out to Chad’s Moussa Mahamat in the race to become the chair of the African Union Commission in the round seven of voting.
Ms Mohamed fell to a strong onslaught fronted by countries from the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) in the seventh round that saw three other candidates fall by the wayside early in the voting.
