President of the UN General Assembly Volkan Bozkir’s deliberate go to to India later this month has been postponed due to an sudden scenario relating to the COVID-19 pandemic within the nation. Bozkir on Tuesday informed reporters that he shall be travelling to Bangladesh and Pakistan later this month on the invitation of the respective governments and also will be visiting Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh the place he’ll meet with Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.
Bangladesh is internet hosting over 1.1 million Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar’s navy crackdown, usually thought-about as “ethnic cleaning” by many rights groups. Bozkir said that he had also planned a visit to India during his trip to South Asia but postponed it due to an unexpected situation.
I also wanted to go to India. It was India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, but unfortunately, an unexpected situation came out and I had to postpone the India part to a later stage. But I will absolutely make sure that I’ll go to India as well, the UN General Assembly President said, referring to India’s COVID-19 crisis. Asked whether the UN will be able to host a regular General Assembly session in September, he said: It would be wrong if we make a decision now for September on how the participation will be. Will it be a hybrid format? Or will we have again 10,000 people at UN Headquarters? What happens to civil society? What happens to the bilaterals? These are all questions we have in our minds.
He said June will be a proper time to discuss with the US, the host country of the UN, and local authorities on the COVID-19 situation and feasibility of holding the UN General Assembly. With New York City aiming to “fully reopen” on July 1, Bozkir mentioned it should give us a sign on whether or not we will have a unique sort of a high-level week than we had final September, when all conferences have been principally digital with minimal in-person presence within the UN premises.
The essential factor shouldn’t be to danger any folks’s well being we should completely associate with the mitigation measures, we should pay attention to what science is saying to us and we should not likely open all the pieces with none precaution. If I have been the host nation, I wouldn’t have made any plans for September as of now as a result of with this pandemic, sadly, we live day-to-day or week by week. We all of the sudden see one thing taking place, like what occurs in India. Nobody was anticipating this all of the sudden to occur. It adjustments all of the plans. So, I believe it’s higher to begin speaking about it, to begin discussing it, after which go away it to the science and to the native authorities, he added.
India is scuffling with an unprecedented second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic with greater than 3,00,000 every day new coronavirus instances being reported prior to now one week.
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