'Egypt & UN' Conference in Cairo University Concluded

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15-02-2025

Rana Atef
The 'Egypt and the United Nations' conference concluded its work by strengthening the partnership between the Multilateral Affairs and International Security Sector at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University, and the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Egypt, and launching a series of events throughout 2025, each of which dedicated to global issues raised in multilateral forums.
The series of events will cover the three pillars of the United Nations' work, from maintaining international peace and security, economic development, and environment, as well as human rights and international humanitarian and social issues, in celebration of the 80th anniversary of Egypt's membership in the United Nations.
The opening remarks by Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for Multilateral Affairs and International Security Ambassador Amr Aljowaily, President of Cairo University Professor Mohamed Sami Abdel Sadek, UN Resident Coordinator in Egypt Elena Panova, and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Political Science Dr. Hanan Ali, emphasized the partnership between diplomatic and academic circles, and enhancing the existing cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The conference agenda included a series of sessions on multilateral topics, with the participation of speakers from 18 ambassadors, assistants to the Minister of Foreign Affairs their deputies, and directors of in the relevant sectors of the Ministry, the Director of the Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding, 15 directors of the UN regional and country offices in Cairo, and 10 professors from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science participated.
In attendance were members of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, researchers from the Information and Decision Support Center of the Cabinet, and third- and fourth-year, bachelor's and doctoral students from the faculty.
At the various sessions of the conference, the speakers presented Egypt's contributions to the field of maintaining international peace and security within the framework of the United Nations, and in the fields of sustainable development, with its social, economic and environmental branches, climate change, and urban development, as well as its contributions to the United Nations and to specialized international agencies, international and regional economic and political blocs, and cooperation with international civil society, and international social and humanitarian fields, migration, combating human trafficking, women's empowerment, health, population and food security, as well as Egypt's role in addressing international legal issues in the United Nations and in industry and technology issues and in cultural fields and cooperation with international and Francophone political and regional blocs.
The closing session announced an integrated work program that also includes the periodicity of holding the conference in mid-February of each year, and a proposal to establish a study unit for professors on the one hand, and a student club on the other hand for specialists in multilateral issues at the United Nations, in addition to selecting outstanding students to visit the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the college receiving senior United Nations officials to give lectures in public seminars.