UN NEWS: Your candidacy for the position of President of General Assembly was built around the theme of hope. This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
Shahid reiterated the importance of multilateral cooperation and the idea that global challenges require unified global action. That means participating on panels with equal numbers of women and pushing for a more family-friendly UN, for mothers who are breast-feeding or taking care of small children. His priorities for the coming year include leading by example to help the UN reach the “gold standard” on issues such as gender equality. He will now represent a United Nations body that speaks on behalf of nearly 7.9 billion. Shahid also spoke about the importance of these issues and his overall presidency for his home country of the Maldives - which he serves as foreign minister - an island nation of 26 atolls southwest of India and Sri Lanka, with a population of around 530,000 people. He added that on issues such as climate change and equitable access to vaccines, he would “never give up hope that humanity will rise to the occasion.”
“The General Assembly is the only body which has the 193 countries represented and this body, when it speaks unanimously, when it decides on a matter, that is the international conscience,” Abdulla Shahid said, ahead of the 76th General Assembly session, which starts on 14 September.
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