Nigeria assumed the one month rotational presidency
of the United Nations Security Council yesterday, 31st July 2015.
Nigeria’s Permanent Secretary to the United Nations takes
over from Ambassador Gerald Bohemen, the Permanent Representative of New
Zealand, who held the presidency for the month of July, 2015.
This would be the first time in the history of the United
Nations, that an elected member of the Security Council would assume presidency
for the fourth time in two separate tenures.
Nigeria was elected a non permanent member of the security
council on October 17, 2013.
With this feat, Nigeria would be serving for the fifth time
since independence of the most powerful decision making organ of the United
Nations.
A statement signed by Dr. Tope Elias-Fatile says that
Nigeria’s return to the council, after having left in December 2012, represents
one of the shortest periods in the anals of the United Nations, that a member
state has served two terms in the council.
According to him, “This is even more remarkable, as it is
occurring under institutional memory of the same Permanent Representative, Joy
Ogwu, who chairs the two security council committees, the first, Security
Council Committee, and Iraq Sanctions Committee.”
Nigeria is also one of the three vice chairs of the Security
Council Committee, established on non-proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction and also one of the vice chairs of the Security Council Committee
on Sudan.
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