President Klaus Iohannis to have bilateral meetings in New York with UN high officials

President Klaus Iohannis is attending in 18-22 September in New York the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, an opportunity to have a series of bilateral meetings with the UN Secretary General, the General Assembly's President, alongside counterparts from other states, a release by the Presidential Administration sent to AGERPRES on Sunday informs. 

The President's schedule will include, among other things, a national discourse delivered at the general debates' session of the UN GA, the participation in high-level reunions, organised by Romania together with other states, as well as by the UN Secretariat, the participation in the reception offered by the U. S. President, Donald Trump to the delegations' heads taking part at the highest level segment in the General Assembly. 

In his speech in the plenum of the General Assembly, president Klaus Iohannis will put an accent on the importance of an international order based on principles and rules, on the rule of law at international level, on the need to strengthen the UN and to adjust it to the current challenges, and will stress the necessity of an efficient response to the main challenges to peace and international security and from our region, the release sent to AGERPRES reads. 

At the event on Education for Peace, organised by Romania, attended by other high officials, president Iohannis will underline the role the inclusive, quality education has in preventing the conflicts, the radicalisation of the youth and violence, in promoting the young as peace essential actors, and also the importance of ensuring the access to education, respectively, as a human being's fundamental right, and of education as a progress factor in society, the kind that leads to the achievement of the UN objectives. 

President Klaus Iohannis will also participate in an event organised by the UN Secretariat dedicated to the launch of the HeForShe10x10x10 Impact Champions joint Report that is promoting the equal opportunities for women and men. On this occasion, the president will have an intervention alongside other 9 heads of states and governments, as a member of the first high-level group founded in 2015 that is pleading for the equal opportunities for women and men. 

In the context of the recent launch of the campaign for Romania to win a seat of non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, in the 2020-2021 mandate, president Klaus Iohannis will sustain within the bilateral, multilateral reunions he will take part in, the importance to achieving this goal of the Romanian state and the main arguments that recommend our country in this competition. 

Romania's President will also meet with representatives of main Jewish organisations in the United States, as well as representatives of the Romanian community with the Philadelphia area, the source adds.