UNGa President on terrorism and support from india.

The UNGA President, Abdulla Shahid, who is Minister of Foreign Affairs For Maldives as of 2018 election and the 76th President of the UNGA (United Nation’s General Assembly) as of June 7. He earned 143 votes out of 191 ballots cast in the 193-member General Assembly , winning against former Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Dr Zalmai Rassoul, who got 48 votes.

Abdulla Shahid has expressed confidence that discussions on way to eliminate international terrorism at UN expedite under his presidency. In the interaction with TOI, he said he’ll will urge members to find solutions to such pending issues as soon as possible.

“The issue of terrorism is being discussed at a legal committee, Sixth committee and I’m sure this year will be increase in effort by many countries to expedite the matter. Of course, expected to any incoming President to clear most of the agenda items as expeditiously as possible, I would like a number of pending issues to be finalized. I’d urge members to conclude and find solution to such pending issues as soon as possible,” said Shahid 76th President of UNGA

The Sixth committee is the primary forum for consideration of legal questions in the General Assembly, has been interminably discussing the comprehensive convention on international terrorism without any real progress.

As Shahid acknowledged, India was among first countries to formally endorse Maldives’ India continued to publicly support Shahid.

“We are grateful for that, especially when two of the Sarcc members were competing. It was very important for a candidate to have a clear position from India in the public. I thank PM Modi and Foreign minister S Jaishankar for it,” said Shahid.

When asked about response on Covid-19 failing to meet the expectations of developing countries and their confidence in UN beginning to wane, Shahid said one of the main issue he promised to deal with is speedy supply of vaccination.

“In my vision statement, I’ve outlined the issues that need urgent attention, Number one is the strategy to deal with Covid-19 and the new strains that are coming up. Then, of course , is the vaccine. Vaccination in the world had to be the first priority because no one is safe until everyone is safe. I can see a lot of expectations from the membership for this to happen. I’ll be working very closely with GA membership for increasing the speed of vaccination,” said Shahid.