Kuwait Amir represrentative hails UN efforts to tackle global challenges at talks

Kuwait Amir represrentative hails UN efforts to tackle global challenges at talks

NEW YORK: His Highness the Amir’s representative, His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, praised on Thursday the United Nations for tackling “formidable challenges and severe crises”. This requires global cooperation not unilateral solutions, he said, speaking at the UN General Assembly 77th session in New York. He also praised the UN’s global call to achieve Sustainable Development Goals.

Highlighting these challenges, he said they have included the COVID pandemic, weapons of mass destruction proliferation, terrorism, natural disasters, climate change, poverty and the increasing warnings over food security.

On the crisis in Ukraine, the prime minister stressed Kuwait’s unwavering stance in support of the principles of international law and the UN charter in opposition to the use of force, or threats for its use, in resolving conflicts. Kuwait supports UN and global efforts for de-escalation and a ceasefire in order to reach a peaceful resolution to the conflict, he said.

“The experiences of modern history have proven to us that peace, and its related mechanisms of mediation and dialogue, was and will always be the ideal resolution to conflicts, no matter how protracted they are.”

On the Middle East crisis, he warned that tensions and instability will remain prevalent in the