UNGA’s next president being elected today

KABUL (Pajhwok): The United Nations General Assembly’s next president is set to be elected today (Monday).

Maldivian Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid is running against Zalmai Rassoul, Afghanistan’s permanent representative to the UN.

Voting is to be held in New York to elect a successor to the current president of the UN General Assembly (PGA), Volkan Bozkir.

The president of the 76th session of the General Assembly is being elected from the Group of Asia-Pacific states for the 2021-2022 period.

Other regions include African, Eastern European, Latin American and Caribbean and Western European and other groups.

India and Saudi Arabia have already pledged supporting the Maldivian candidate.

Rassoul served as minister of transport and civil aviation in 2002, as chairman of the National Security Council from 2002 to 2010 and as minister of foreign affairs from January 2010 to October 2013.

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