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UEFA and the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) today concluded a Memorandum of Understanding at the House of European Football in Nyon, signed by UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva Tatiana Valovaya.
Having jointly staged the successful ‘Match for Solidarity’ in 2018, UEFA and UNOG will organise another edition of the star-studded charity match in Geneva in 2022. The game will again provide vital support to the UEFA Foundation for Children projects helping to protect children in Europe and across the world.
The Memorandum of Understanding further establishes a formal institutional partnership between the two organisations and outlines concrete activities to harness football’s capacity to promote sustainable development and peace. A core objective of the agreement is to highlight and promote football’s contribution to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goal
Four years can seem like an eternity or it can pass in the blink of an eye. To me, the last four years look like a mixture of both. Four years ago, President Xi Jinping was on a state visit to Switzerland, the first for a Chinese president in this century and the first-ever for a Chinese head of state to attend and keynote at the renowned World Economic Forum in Davos. The next day Xi gave a landmark speech at the United Nations Office at Geneva calling for “a community with a shared future for mankind”. Three days later Donald Trump was inaugurated 6,540 km away in actual distance, but substantively worlds apart, saying: “From this day forward it’s going to be ‘America first’.” Since then, these respective phrases are indelibly ascribed to each man.
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ELECTS NAZHAT SHAMEEM KHAN TO SERVE AS ITS PRESIDENT FOR 2021
16/01/2021
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (15 January 2021) - The Human Rights Council today elected H.E Nazhat Shameem Khan, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Fiji to the United Nations Office at Geneva, to serve as its President for 2021. Ambassador Khan was elected through a secret ballot process through which all 47 members of the Geneva-based human rights body cast their vote to appoint its president for 2021 – the Council’s 15th annual cycle.
Ambassador Khan, whose presidency takes immediate effect, joins the Ambassadors of the Bahamas, Sudan and Netherlands, who were elected vice-presidents of the Council in December, to serve on the Council Bureau for the current year. The election of the fourth vice-president, from the Eastern European Group, will take place following negotiations within the Group.
People visit the consumer goods exhibition area during the third China International Import Expo (CIIE), in east China s Shanghai, Nov. 10, 2020. (Xinhua/Li Renzi) Four years ago, at the United Nations Office in Geneva, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for building a community with a shared future for mankind. The vision has gradually transformed into a consensus shared by countries around the world amid growing global challenges. As a firm proponent and practitioner of multilateralism, China has all along taken concrete actions to turn the vision into reality via win-win cooperation.
Pulling together to build a community with shared future for mankind, a historic and philosophical concept presented by Chinese President Xi Jinping, has gradually transformed into a consensus amid growing challenges worldwide.