Sudan’s Prime Minister to participate in UN Climate Action Summit
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan’s Prime Minister, Dr. Abdulla Hamdouk, will take part in the UN climate action summit in New York next week.
He will be the first such top Sudanese official in almost 10 years to fly to New York for a UN summit, as the US ban on senior Sudanese officials to enter the US soil was a deterrent for deposed President Omar Bashir and a host of senior officials because of the ethnic cleansing and genocide in Sudanese province of Darfur.
The Prime minister made the announcement at a meeting with the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Ms. Gwi-Yeop Son and the Country Programme Manager of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Mr. Atila Uras, to discuss Sudan's participation in the summit on 23 September 2019.
In a press release the UN office in Khartoum said UN Climate Action Summit is the most important high-level meeting of the 2019 UN General Assembly and the initiative of UN Secretary-General António Guterres who describes preventing irreversible climate disruption as “the race of our lives and for our lives”.
The release received by PANA in Khartoum said the summit has three objectives: to raise national ambition and develop plans to contribute to limiting climate change; prompt transformative change in areas including energy, infrastructure, adaptation, and climate finance; and generate political momentum including through youth and public engagement.
“Sudan is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change and the least prepared for its impacts. By participating in the UN Climate Action Summit, the Prime Minister is sending an important message to the kind of development path Sudan wished to pursue,” the release said.
Ms. Son said the UN Climate Action Summit is an important international moment to boost ambition and accelerate the implementation of the Paris Agreement.
"The presence of the Prime Minister at the Summit sends an important international signal that Sudan is committed to tackling climate change.”
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