Security Council Briefing With Albania As President

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Ambassador Ferit Hoxha of Albania and President of the Security Council for the month of September, On Friday (1 Sep) announced a High-level Council meeting on Ukraine to take place during this month’s High-level week.

Briefing reporters in New York on the Council's program of work for the month, Hoxha said, “We want to use the presence of the leaders in town, to have a meaningful discussion in the Council at the level of heads of delegation, not only to analyze the situation and the ongoing war and consequences in Ukraine but also the prospects where we go from now what can be done.”

The name of the meeting will be “To Uphold the Goals and Principles of the UN Charter through Effective Multilateralism, with a Special Focus on the Maintenance of Peace and Security in Ukraine” and will take place on 20 September.

The Albanian Ambassador said other areas of focus for the Council in September include, “what is happening in Haiti. It's a horrible situation and I hope the Council will be able to really move on this issue.”

He said, “We will have one or more meetings on Sudan, we know that there is an ongoing war, a deadly war and with no real prospects for peace. We know that the situation in Darfur is absolutely going back and reminding what happened 20 years ago, going back to two elements of genocide, so that will be also our focus. We will be discussing Syria, and we know the complex situation related to the humanitarian assistance for northwest Syria. So, of course, the Council is never, never at stop.”

On Syria, Hoxha continued, “The priority is really to provide basic needs for those for 4.2 million people who could not have them otherwise, then through that most important border crossing, which actually processes 80 to 85 percent of the needs, and crossline will never be able to compete, we'll never be able to meet the needs. That's why we need it open.”