{"id":41549,"date":"2021-10-25T11:53:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T11:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abdas.org\/?p=41549"},"modified":"2021-10-26T04:04:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T04:04:46","slug":"president-uhuru-kenyatta-to-chair-un-security-council-session-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/2021\/10\/25\/president-uhuru-kenyatta-to-chair-un-security-council-session-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"President Uhuru Kenyatta to Chair UN Security Council Session in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41552 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/kenyat-uru.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"375\" \/>President Uhuru Kenyatta had arrived in New York on 10th October for a two-day working visit of the US, during which he is scheduled to chair a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) high-level open debate on diversity, state-building and peace.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya currently holds the monthly rotational presidency of the Council for October 2021. This is after the country assumed its position as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council on January 1 2021 for a 2 year period.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya\u2019s Permanent Representative to the UN Martin Kimani says the country\u2019s main agenda at the UN Security Council is to offer ideas and solutions to global peace and security in areas such as the Horn of Africa and the troubled Sahel region. Kenya will be relying on its vast experience in peace building in sharing its ideas with the UN.<\/p>\n<p>President Kenyatta is also expected to hold bilateral discussions with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guteress and witness the signing of a trade agreement between Kenya\u2019s private sector and a consortium of American companies during his visit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKenya has been very specific on the steps it expects the United Nations to take particularly in regard to the Covid-19 pandemic vaccination, peace and security and how the world should get to COP26 in a month\u2019s time. How the world responds to climate change is key to Kenya\u2019s future prosperity,\u201d said Kimani.<\/p>\n<p>President Kenyatta will witness the signing of a new initiative between the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (Kepsa) and the Corporate Council on Africa, the largest umbrella body of US companies operating in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The business agreement seeks to enhance collaboration between Kenyan companies, especially the small and medium enterprises with their American counterparts in a deliberate government effort to create more jobs and employment opportunities for Kenya\u2019s youth.<\/p>\n<p>Further, President Kenyatta is scheduled to participate in the Global Leaders\u2019 high-level discussion organised by the International Peace Institute (IPI), with participation by former Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations Prince Zeid Raad Al Hussein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Uhuru Kenyatta had arrived in New York on 10th October for a two-day working visit of the US, during which he is scheduled to chair a United Nations Security &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49501,"featured_media":41552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[453,309,467,294,300,31,32,33,34,73,126],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41570,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41549\/revisions\/41570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}