Nigeria’s Permanent Representative
to the United Nations took over from Ambassador Gerald Bohemen, the Permanent
Representative of New Zealand, who held the presidency for the month of July
2015. Nigeria will occupy the position of UN Security Council Presidency
throughout August 2015.
This is 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 is 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 Dr.
Elias-Fatile, “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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