Please check your entries and try again. WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Munir Akram, was elected unanimously as the President of the UN Economic and Social Council for a year (2020-2021).
Ambassador said he would work closely with the incoming President of the General Assembly’s 75th Session, Ambassador Volkan Bozkir of Turkey, who will be visiting Pakistan soon. This is the sixth time that Pakistan has been elected as ECOSOC President.

The presidency rotates among the United Nations Regional Groups to ensure equal representation. The only other Ambassador to have had this distinction was Juan Somavia of Chile, the former Director-General of ILO. He hoped that a COVID-19 vaccine will be developed soon. The incoming ECOSOC President called for preferential access for developing countries to advanced technologies and for making the intellectual property regime “compatible with the SDGs”. The president of the Council is elected for a one-year term and chosen from the small or medium sized states represented on the Council at the beginning of each new session. He also mentioned the proposals for new SDRs and other financing proposals under consideration. The 54-Member ECOSOC is the third principal organ, along with the General Assembly and Security Council, established in 1945 under the UN Charter to promote international economic cooperation and oversee the work of all international economic organizations. Pakistan’s Munir Akram elected as president of UN Economic and Social Council, Joe Biden terms President Trump as ‘ national embarrassment’ over racist group row, Study: School reopening and COVID-19 surge has no clear link, FBR extends deadline for filing tax returns to Dec 8, Pakistan reports five more coronavirus-related deaths in 24 hours, ISPR: Woman injured in Indian firing along LoC, ‘I Am Woman’ singer Helen Reddy, ’70s hitmaker, dies at 78, Supported by Korea, UNHCR construct two schools in Heart, Zemarai Paikan sentenced to three years in prison, Afghan President sacks 17 Advisors on various affairs, Messi’s happiness not in my hands, says Koeman. In his acceptance speech, Ambassador Akram outlined the objectives of the Pakistan Presidency. Thanks for subscribing! The “digital revolution has opened vast opportunities” for the developing countries, not so much to “catch up” with the advanced countries, but to “leap frog” into a “new and modern development paradigm”. He said today UN member states face three simultaneous challenges: the COVID, health and economic crisis, the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals and the existential threat of climate change.



“Everyone, everywhere – rich or poor – must have equal access to the vaccine”. This is the second time Ambassador Akram has been elected to this post, having served as ECOSOC President in 2005. Something went wrong. The President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council is the presiding officer of that body.
Quoting the UN Secretary-General, he said, “Inequality defines our times”.

Ambassador Akram proposed that in the coming year, ECOSOC should focus on three areas: financing of the COVID-19, SDG and climate change goals; sustainable infrastructure investment; and application of advanced science and technology for development.

His Excellency Munir Akram was elected seventy-sixth President of the Economic and Social Council on 23 July 2020.

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The legacy of colonialism, foreign occupation and racism is “a major systemic cause of inequality”, among and within nations. He said the pledge of the advanced countries to raise 100 billion annually for climate action must be fulfilled.

Noting that the IMF Managing Director has estimated that developing countries will need over $2.5 billion to recover from the current COVID induced recession, the Pakistani Council President recalled the early call by Prime Minister Imran Khan for a “Global Initiative on Debt Relief”. WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Munir Akram, was elected unanimously as the President of the UN Economic and Social Council for a year (2020-2021). He proposed the creation of an Infrastructure Project Preparation and Investment Centre. Additional investment of over $1.5 trillion annually in sustainable infrastructure was “most essential” for achievement of the SDGs, he added.

The commitments made in each area must be implemented. He would convene special meetings to advance action in these areas.