PM to represent Thailand at UN General Assembly
PRIME MINISTER Prayut Chan-o-cha will attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York later this month focusing on the conclusion of the Thai chairmanship of the Group of 77.
The Cabinet yesterday also approved Thailand’s position paper to be presented during the 71st General Assembly starting next Tuesday.
Thailand will emphasise its role pushing for benefits for developing countries in its capacity as leader of the Group of 77. It will also highlight principles of the sufficiency economy as a mechanism to achieve the UN’s goals on sustainable development.
The approach is in response to the General Assembly’s theme “The Sustainable Development Goals: A universal push to transform our world”.
The position paper focuses on nine principles: support for sustainable economic development, international security and peacekeeping, development in Africa, support for human rights, efficient coordination of humanitarian aid, support for international jurisdiction, weapons reduction and combating transnational terrorism, crime and drugs, and organisational development
According to assistant government spokesman Colonel Atisith Chainuvati, Prayut is scheduled to leave for New York on September 18 and will spend almost a week there.
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