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Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera

lines on the record: 41
first: 2020-09-24
most recent: 2023-09-24
sittings or episodes: 3
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“Most important, we need a new paradigm that unleashes the full potential of our youth and puts them in the driving seat of the vehicles we are using to reach our SDG targets, for the future we are chasing after is theirs, not ours.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“We need a development paradigm that promotes competition in matters of human ingenuity, science, technology and innovation, and not in matters of militarization and economic exploitation, which are just new forms of colonization. We need a new paradigm that celebrates and rewards the developed nations that fulfil their commitment to financing climate resilience projects in developing countries. We need a new paradigm that establishes effective carbon markets to empower developing nations like Malawi with the resources necessary for achieving sustainability and implementing their national adaptation plans. We need a new paradigm that builds each continent’s capacity to tackle future pandemics, including vaccine manufacturing capabilities and proactive pandemic preparedness.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“I believe President Biden said it so well here, and Malawi joins the United States in insisting that Africa must have permanent seats on the Security Council with veto power, because without that level of inclusivity, rebuilding trust and reigniting global solidarity will be a challenge. One of the reasons we need a reformed United Nations is because we need a new development paradigm beyond 2030. We need a development paradigm that takes on board the interests of the developing world in the spirit of true partnership. We need a development paradigm that places partnership at the heart of our quest for SDG achievement.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“We are committed to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and to a rules-based international system, so long as we have the power to change the rules that have worked against us and held back our development for decades That is why Malawi strongly advocates for radical reform in the Security Council itself, whose very structure undermines the values of democracy, inclusivity, accountability and trust. It is no accident that at this general debate of the General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session, focused on rebuilding trust and solidarity, only one Head of State from the permanent members of the Security Council has showed up. That is not how you build trust. That is not how you show solidarity. That is not accountability. That is not leadership. As such.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“For Malawi’s part, we are committed to continuing to implement reforms and policies aimed at building economic resilience against shocks. We are committed to continuing to engage the United Nations and our development partners, both multilaterally and bilaterally, in mobilizing international support that goes beyond disaster management and seeks to build sustainability. We are committed to continuing to bang on the doors of financial institutions that remain too slow, too unresponsive and too rigid to address the existing financing gaps in the programs we have for achieving the SDGs.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“As a family of nations, we have already lost two years of progress during the Decade of Action due to the economic shutdowns effected to contain COVID-19, and if you want the global economy to regain that lost ground, you must cancel the debts. We have lost another two years of progress during the Decade of Action due to economic disruptions caused by the war in Eastern Europe, and if you want to see EDCs catch up on the SDGs. you must cancel the debts. That is a decision the international community can make today and action it can take that would breathe oxygen into the suffocating economies of the global South. That is a decision the international community can make today so that the money being drained by servicing debts can go towards rebuilding roads, schools, hospitals, businesses and livelihoods.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“So when I say that our SDGs are under threat, the threat is real and is already here. What Malawi needs, therefore, is decision and action. We need decision and action on the climate financing that has thus far been nothing more than a promissory note from the developed countries responsible for resourcing our efforts for mitigation, adaptation and. most urgently, loss and damage. We need decision and action on debt, for like most least developed countries (LDCs). Malawi is in distress because its debt is unsustainable, and so our call to action on behalf of all LDCs on this matter remains the same: Cancel the Debts! Cancel the Debts! Cancel the Debts!”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Malawi has had the worst cholera outbreak in its history, killing more people than the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a consequence of the contamination our water bodies and systems suffered when Tropical Storm Ana and Cyclone Gombe hit us six months earlier. In that time. Malawi has also had a drought in its northern region, resulting in the loss of half of our maize and 80 per cent of our rice in one of the most productive districts in our country. In that time. Malawi has also come under assault by the worst cyclone on record, as Freddy made landfall twice and left a trail of death and destruction like you could not believe, killing over 1.000. displacing over half a million, and washing away homes, roads, bridges, businesses and fields of crops that are a source of livelihood for over 2 million people.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“to leverage Malawi’s abundant water resources for better sanitation in line with SDG 6. and to promote life below water in line with SDG 14. Now. while we celebrate the progress we have made on those goals, with seven years to go before the end of the Decade of Action on the SDGs we are not satisfied with seeing progress on only five out of seventeen goals. In fact, not only do we need support with making gains in the areas where we are seeing little, but we even need urgent support in safeguarding the gains we have made in the areas where we are doing well. In short, we need urgent support in building resilience to inoculate our economy against the adverse effects of shocks. In the 12 months since the last time I stood here (see A/77/PV.9).”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“We must prioritize those places in the world that are most at risk of not achieving sustainability in any of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In the case of Malawi, the most pressing priorities are plain to see. As a nation, we took the SDGs and aligned our national aspirations to reflect them. Therefore, even though we have our sights set on the Malawi 2063 Vision, we also created an implementation plan for the first 10 years that coincides with the Decade of Action on the SDGs in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Our focus has already started yielding fruit, because in the past few years we have stayed on track with our quest to end hunger in line with SDG 2. to safeguard the good health and well-being of our citizens in line with SDG 3. to improve quality of education in line with SDG 4.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“It is not good enough to say that we want to reignite global solidarity when we continue to pick and choose whom we show solidarity with. It is not good enough to say that we want to move towards peace when our actions in other nations promote war and create the conditions for conflict. It is not good enough to say we want prosperity for all when our rules for trade and our financial systems are a recipe for deepening the poverty of other nations. Unless we do change our decisions, our positions and our actions, the future we speak of today and the sustainable development we dream of achieving by 2030 will remain a reality only on paper. And when it comes to urgent action, we must focus our attention, our energies and our resources on the areas where we are falling behind.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“In less than 30 years, we will come to the halfway point of this century, and in less than 80 years the twenty-first century will end. By that time, none of us will be Presidents and none of us will be alive. So when we stand at this rostrum and speak of the future, we speak of a future that does not belong to us. When we speak of a future with sustainable development, we speak of a better world not for us. but for our grandchildren and their children. And the decisions we make today, the actions we take each day. are what determine the kind of future we are creating for them. It is therefore not good enough to say that we must rebuild trust in the world when we continue making decisions that undermine trust.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“In that spirit of one humankind, let me conclude by expressing my country’s deepest condolences to the British royal family and to the people and the Government of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth on the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, who was laid to rest on the eve of the Assembly’s high- level debate week. I thank Mr. Csaba Korosi, President of the General Assembly at its seventy-seventh session, for this opportunity, and I congratulate him on his election, as I wish outgoing President Abdulla Shahid the very best in his continued service to humankind and the cause of leaving no one behind.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“That is the United Nations the world needs — a reformed United Nations that practices the equality and democracy it preaches; a reformed United Nations that is not constantly polarized by nuclear Powers, stuck in Cold War mindsets; a reformed United Nations that uses its multilateral muscle to give equal attention to the interlocking issues of public health, food insecurity, climate change and conflict, regardless of where they emerge or whom they affect; a reformed United Nations that gives equal weight to all States Members that give it meaning, not just those that give it money. That is because we are one humankind, facing the same storm in the same boat.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“For that to become a reality, United States President Biden’s recent call for the United Nations family to defend the rights of smaller nations as equals of larger ones must not only be applauded, but it must be uploaded. As African Member States, we do not wish to gather here next year with no progress made on the African Union’s Ezulwini Consensus, which demands two permanent seats with veto power and five non-permanent seats for Africa. Following the strong signal of support from the Government of the United States, we expect to see that matter on its way to the Security Council to be proposed, discussed and decided. That is the United Nations we want.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Let that be the beginning of breaking the chains holding vulnerable countries back, not the end, because when we say that we are leaving no one behind, that is one way to put our money where our mouth is. Let me hasten to add that, as President of a country that stands to benefit from debt-relief measures, I do not regard my country as entitled to such. In fact, I am fully committed to being held accountable for the responsible use of those lifejackets. I recognize that we must also prove ourselves worthy of such assistance by using it to cushion our citizens against the worsening financial volatility, trade cost and human suffering that debt and other external factors cause. Indeed, there must be no Member State in our midst that is beyond scrutiny or exempt from accountability.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“As leaders of generations past worked together to end old forms of slavery, we must also work together to end this new form. Recently, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund called on the world’s major lenders to show leadership by relieving vulnerable countries of the debts that shackle them, because even loans that were given and received in good faith have become unsustainable in the recent and current climate of relentless and unforeseen external shocks. I therefore join her in reiterating that call and commend the People’s Republic of China for leading by example by fulfilling the pledge it made at last year’s Forum on China-Africa Cooperation to forgive interest- free loans owed by 17 African countries.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“In that spirit of partnership, we also plan to make full use of the Doha Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2022-2031 in order to catch up even more on achieving the SDGs. Speaking of LDCs, it is my pleasure as Chair to invite members to the fifth United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries, to be held in Doha in March 2023, where even more partnerships will be forged around creating solutions for vulnerable countries. One problem in desperate need of a solution for the most vulnerable LDCs is the unsustainable debt levels and distress they bear. It is not for nothing that the scriptures, which are regarded as sacred in more than half the world, describe unsustainable debt as a form of slavery.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“We own the SDGs fully, and Malawi has so far undertaken two voluntary national reviews since 2020 in order to strengthen its national ownership of the SDGs. However, we see global private-public partnerships as essential to reclaiming the gains we have lost towards achieving the SDGs in the recent months of global crises. It is because of our collaborative approach that we are on track to implement 60 per cent of the Goals. We are now in the process of reviewing the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework for the period 2024 to 2028 so that it is responsive to national development plans, linked to the delivery of the SDGs.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“However, the critical need for us is to strengthen health systems more broadly in order to build resilience against future pandemics, which calls for investment in health infrastructure and research. In that context, the news that six African States have been chosen to produce messenger RNA vaccines in Africa is music to my ears. I am proud of Malawi’s advocacy of that approach, as well as Malawi’s role as a co-pioneer of An Accord for a Healthier World, which was announced by Pfizer in Davos four months ago and aims to bring quality medicines to 1.2 billion people in low- income countries. Those action-oriented partnerships are examples of the importance of Sustainable Development Goal 17 in the advancement of all other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Our ongoing institutionalization of our national climate change fund should help in that regard, as will other measures for making climate financing predictable. Although Malawi and other least developed countries contribute the least to climate change, we are committed to the global climate agenda. Malawi’s own ambition is to cut carbon emissions by half before the year 2040, and we therefore call for support for our efforts to transition to clean and green energy. On dealing with the evolving challenge of the coronavirus disease, Malawi is again ready to catch up. Crucial to that effort is obtaining access to vaccines, and members’ support to our efforts to catch up in that area will strengthen our vaccine-delivery systems in general.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Those disasters reverse years of developmental gains. Cyclones Ana and Gombe alone destroyed strategic infrastructure and community assets and displaced thousands of households. One fifth of our people are currently at risk of acute food shortage — 3.6 million Malawians face hunger from next month until March. As we prepare to deploy food assistance from our strategic reserves, we welcome members’ support through early-warning systems for generating and managing climate data to reduce the impact of disasters, as well as technical and financial capacity-building on weather data analysis, modelling and forecasting to address the barriers faced by farmers in accessing useful information.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“We are delighted that many private sector investors are flocking to us to join the agricultural revolution that is coming to Malawi, as well as investors in mining, who know that the recent discovery in Malawi of the largest deposit of rutile in the world means that Malawi’s economic rise is imminent. On climate change mitigation and adaptation, Malawi is ready to catch up. With the twenty-seventh session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to be held imminently in Sharm-El-Sheikh, we call for action on the pledges that have already been made so that Malawi and other least developed countries (LDCs) can build resilience to climate-change induced events, such as floods, droughts, pests and cyclones — all projected to become more frequent and more severe.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“How do we get back on track? As I see it, with so many left behind, the only thing to do is to concentrate United Nations support on the most vulnerable who are lagging behind so that they can catch up. Malawi stands ready to do its part in using any new support it receives to make up for lost ground and catch up. On addressing the current global food crisis, Malawi is ready to catch up, having just joined the Feed the Future initiative, which will give us access to new financing in the next few years to use Malawi’s vast arable land and large volumes of fresh water to develop mega farms that will feed the world and lift millions of our farmers out of subsistence living.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Yet we continue to use evacuation methods that rush some nations out to safety while leaving the rest of us behind to fend for ourselves in the burning building. However, if we are truly one United Nations family, then leaving no one behind must be practiced, not just preached. If we are truly one United Nations family, we must reject any attempts to politicize human suffering by lobbying us to refuse the help of those some find politically offensive. If we are truly one United Nations family, we must abandon political posturing and welcome more helping hands in resolving the problems that the permanent members of the Security Council have sometimes created and failed to solve alone, namely, the failure to stop environmental degradation, prevent unjust wars, lift unsustainable debt burdens, prevent food insecurity and contain pandemics.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“We all know that pandemics are a global problem that will never be solved unless all nations solve it together. Yet, in the roll-out of vaccines and the application of travel restrictions, we have been left behind. We all know that regional insecurity is a global problem that will never be solved unless all nations solve it together. Yet, in terms of participation in Security Council decisions that affect us, we have been left behind. We all know that food shortage is a global problem that will never be solved until all nations solve it together. Yet, in the allocation of international facilities for agro-based and debt-distressed economies, we have been left behind. As a result of our collective negligence, the global economy is now a house on fire.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Leave no one behind — those four words are the promise at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. That is the principle to which this United Nations body is committed. But today, more than three and a half years after that commitment was made, smaller nations and younger democracies around the world already feel that was an empty promise. Today not only do smaller nations and younger democracies, such as Malawi, still feel that they have been left behind, but they feel much farther behind than they were before. For instance, we all know that climate change is a global problem that will never be solved unless all nations solve it together. Yet, months after Malawi and its Sustainable Development Goal gains were set backwards by two tropical storms in quick succession, we have been left behind.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“In keeping with the adage, “charity begins at home”, we are committed to continue contributing a battalion of the Malawi Defence Force to the UN Peacekeeping Mission under a SADC Force Intervention Brigade in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. You can count on our humble contribution towards the UN fit for purpose in the 21st Century. I Thank You for Your Attention, May God Bless Us All.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“President, Excellencies, At this key moment for international cooperation, and during the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations, unity is paramount towards the realisation of our shared vision of a healthy, equitable, peaceful and a more sustainable world. Malawi values partnerships in achieving common goals. It is for this reason that we accepted the responsibility of chairing the LDC Group up to 2022; and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) from August, 2021. Our membership in the African Union Peace and Security Council up to 2022 is premised on the same calling. Malawi is committed to make its humble contribution in all UN efforts including in the UN Human Rights Council, where we are seeking membership in 2021.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“Crucially, we need to draw the appropriate lessons from the global vulnerabilities and inequalities exposed by the virus and mobilize sustainable investments in education, health systems, social protection and resilience. However, multilateralism is not only a matter of confronting shared threats; it is also about seizing common opportunities. We must seize this moment and emerge stronger, better, and more inclusive. The virtues of multilateralism must not just be preached; they must be practiced. This calls for the participation of all stakeholders in shaping the future, especially the youth, who are the majority in our nations. Mr.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“In view of the incessant conflicts that are currently tearing down the African continent and retarding its progress, the reforms are long overdue. Mr. President, Excellencies, Global challenges and opportunities are reminders that we are all interconnected. The COVID-19 pandemic and climate change, among others, are such colossal challenges that require global unity and solutions. The commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the UN is it itself an opportunity to celebrate our collective achievements and the Charter on which our unity is founded. We must work together as one global family. We must collectively do all we can to save lives and ease the economic and social devastation.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“President, Excellencies, We take note of the UN reform efforts as championed by the Secretary General and reiterate the crucial role of ONE UN in ensuring efficient and effective delivery for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. However, we are concerned with the status of the UN Security Council reforms. Malawi, therefore, reiterates the call for urgency in advancing these reforms with full representation of Africa in line with the Ezulwini Consensus of the African Union. For the avoidance of doubt, we call for two Permanent Seats with Veto Power and five Non-Permanent Seats for Africa. We need a UN that fully meets Africa’s needs in peace processes, which can only be achieved if Africa is involved in making such decisions.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“Realizing the need for enabling effective institutions, Malawi established the National Planning Commission that is charged with domesticating SDGs through national development plans. We are also implementing public sector reforms, which are championed at a high level in the Office of the Vice President of the Republic of Malawi. In order to break the cycle of food and nutrition insecurity and chronic vulnerability to climate change and disasters, my Administration is implementing the National Resilience Strategy for the period 2018-2030. The strategy bridges development and humanitarian interventions and prioritizes a continuum of more predictable livelihood support packages targeting the most vulnerable households so that our development process leaves no one behind. Mr.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“Malawi is focussed on implementing those SDGs with multiplier effects on others in order to maximize scarce resources and stakeholder participation, more so, in a COVID-19 Pandemic situation. We are proud to have undertaken the first ever Voluntary National Review (VNR) during this year’s High-Level Political Forum in July, 2020. The review noted our remarkable progress towards SDGs implementation albeit the myriad outstanding challenges. We, therefore, appeal for enhanced implementation support from our partners. Mr. President, Excellencies, We are conscious of the critical importance of policy domestication in attaining the SDGs. Malawi integrated the SDGs into its national development planning framework, the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS III).”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“President, Excellencies, The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda remains a pragmatic platform for coordinated international development among Member States, especially now, when we are facing the threat of COVID-19 pandemic and strained international cooperation and multilateralism. However, Malawi is optimistic towards the achievement of the SDGs. In our case, achieving the SDGs is the best opportunity of addressing socioeconomic challenges in pursuit of the vision of inclusive wealth creation and self- reliance. Accordingly, as we enter the decade of action, which is the last ten years of the implementation of the agenda 2030, my Government continues to work with the United Nations system and other development partners in all priority areas of SDG acceleration.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“We, therefore, welcome efforts to reduce transaction costs on remittances and implementation of rescue and turnaround packages for small scale enterprises. I wish to confirm our commitment to host the postponed Africa Regional Review Meeting of the LDCs planned for 2021. As Chair, I would also like to take this opportunity to invite all LDC Member States, the private sector, civil society organizations, UN Agencies, Friends of the LDCs, and all other stakeholders, to the LDC-V Conference scheduled to take place in January, 2022, in Doha, Qatar. This will be a great opportunity for us to prepare our next 10-Year Plan of Action for LDCs, and we thank the State of Qatar for accepting to host this important event. Mr.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“With regard to the high risk of debt default, we acknowledge the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and many key development partners for the debt moratorium granted to the LDCs. Considering the potential length and breadth of this pandemic, we request and are hopeful for debt cancellation ultimately and an extension of the debt moratorium in the meantime. That will enable us as LDCs to recover from this devastating pandemic sustainably. On trade, we appeal for deliberate measures to ease supply chain disruptions. As you are aware, Malawi and many LDCs have large informal sectors, which play crucial roles in domestic resource mobilization through remittances and small scale economic production.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“Our challenges are more exacerbated by geographical and related disadvantages such as lack of territorial access to the sea, isolation and remoteness from world markets, and high transit and transport costs. All these impose constraints on our trade competitiveness and overall socio-economic development and inhibit our full participation in global production networks and supply chains. In this regard and as Chair of LDCs, Malawi issued a Statement on 25 April, 2020, which highlighted the impact of COVID-19 pandemic in terms of: high risk of debt default; worsening trade competitiveness; supply chain disruptions; and a constrained informal working sector. The Statement further appealed for enhanced international support towards the LDCs.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“The smooth transition of power between me and my predecessor has fostered a peaceful environment and sustained our billing as the Warm Heart of Africa, which I have since vowed to govern by servant leadership and a philosophy called “Tonse”, meaning “all of us”. Mr. President, Excellencies, I address the Assembly at the height of the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, which is ravaging health systems across the globe and causing deep economic harm to our nations. Malawi, being a member of both the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDC) Groups, is among the hardest hit, a situation compounded by a skewed development trajectory.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“On a sombre note, I convey to you all my nation’s sincere condolences to all of you for loved ones lost to the COVID-19 pandemic, as will as good will to those recovering from the virus. Mr. President, As you know, I took office as President of the Republic of Malawi following my election on June 23 of this year, making this my inaugural address to this Assembly, which is a great honour. The process leading to that election, though protracted, was peaceful and a clear justification of Malawi’s reputation as a beacon of democracy, anchored in respect for human rights, governance institutions, and the rule of law.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)
“Your Excellency Mr. Volkan Bozkir — President of the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly; Your Excellency Mr. Antonio Guterres — United Nations Secretary-General; Excellencies Heads of State and Government; Ladies and Gentlemen. At the outset, I wish to extend my congratulations to Your Excellency, Mr. Volkan Bozkir, on your election to the Office of President of the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. You can count on my support and that of the people and Government of the Republic of Malawi during your tenure. To the outgoing President of the United Nations General Assembly, Your Excellency Tijjani Muhammad-Bande: Thank you for your hard work and leadership throughout your term of office.”
2020-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 75 (2020)