UNITED NATIONS – Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations, MaleehaLodhi, has been selected to organize a high-level meeting of the UN GeneralAssembly to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Convention on theRights of the Child during its 74th session, which begins in September, theUN announced on Tuesday.
The announcement was made at the regular noon briefing in New York briefingby a spokesperson of the president of the 193-member Assembly, MariaFernanda Espinosa of Ecuador.
Spokesperson Monica Grayley said that UNGA President Espinosa has appointedAmbassador Lodhi and Bulgarian Ambassador Georgi Velikov Panayotov asco-facilitators to “help with consultations with member states on theorganizational and procedural arrangements” for the high-level plenarymeeting.
She said the two diplomats will also “finalize the modalities resolution”for the meeting through an open and transparent consultative process.
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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is a humanrights treaty which sets out the civil, political, economic, social, healthand cultural rights of children.
