What was the story of the Maldives flag during the Vice President’s meeting with the President of the UN General Assembly?
The media, referring to this photo of the vice president, referred to it with titles such as “strange point” and “big mistake”, but no action was taken against the protocol during the meeting.
Each year a representative of one of the UN member states is elected to chair the UN General Assembly. According to the protocols, in all meetings during this year, only the flag of the country whose representative has been elected to chair the General Assembly and the flag of the UN in His office is located, and delegations from other countries do not raise their flags for meetings held in the General Assembly President’s room.
Abdullah Shahid, the current President of the UN General Assembly, is a veteran diplomat from the Republic of Maldives who, after two terms as Foreign Minister, was elected President of the 76th UN General Assembly from June 1400 until September 2022 (September and October of the year). 1401) presides over it.
In other meetings of Abdullah Shahid with politicians and heads of state, there is also the flag of the Maldives, which shows the nationality of the current chairman of the UN General Assembly and has nothing to do with the guests.
It is worth mentioning that Ensieh Khazali, Vice President for Women and Family Affairs, has traveled to New York to attend the 66th meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Has had consultations.
The sixty-sixth annual meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women, after a two-year hiatus due to the corona outbreak, was held from Monday, March 14, 1400, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York until March 25, 2022. The presence of high-ranking women leaders and officials will continue.
The Commission on the Status of Women is one of the first international bodies established under the auspices of the United Nations Economic and Social Council to make decisions and policies to improve the situation of women around the world. In the field of climate change, policies and programs to reduce environmental risks and disasters.