{"id":15167,"date":"2024-01-04T18:55:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T18:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=15167"},"modified":"2024-01-04T18:55:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T18:55:33","slug":"guyana-assumes-seat-on-un-security-council-for-2024-2025-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/guyana-assumes-seat-on-un-security-council-for-2024-2025-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana Assumes Seat on UN Security Council for 2024-2025 Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Guyana has officially taken its seat as an elected member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the two-year term of 2024-2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations, Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, installed the Guyana flag outside the Council chambers at the UN Headquarters in a ceremony attended by the other newly elected members: Algeria, Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, and Slovenia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Irfaan Ali has expressed Guyana&#8217;s commitment to being a constructive and engaged partner with the UNSC members and the broader international community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized Guyana&#8217;s intention to contribute to global prosperity and actively participate in finding solutions to significant challenges facing humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ambassador Rodrigues-Birkett, in a brief statement, highlighted the growing complexity of maintaining international peace and security amid multidimensional challenges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She stressed the Council&#8217;s need to be proactive in addressing potential sources of conflict and comprehensive in responding to existing conflict situations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guyana aims for a people-centered approach, involving women and youth in conflict resolution, recognizing the role of conflict as a driver of poverty and underdevelopment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guyana&#8217;s election as a non-permanent member of the UNSC, with 191 votes in the UN General Assembly in June 2023, marks the country&#8217;s third term on the Council, following previous terms in 1975\u20131976 and 1982\u20131983. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This achievement underscores Guyana&#8217;s growing influence on the global geopolitical stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guyana has officially taken its seat as an elected member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the two-year term of 2024-2025. The Permanent Representative of Guyana to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[363,350,367,351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-transformation","category-news","category-one-guyana","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15169,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15167\/revisions\/15169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}