The United Nations (UN) General Assembly on Tuesday picked Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces, Ecuador's minister for foreign affairs and human mobility¹, to be its next president.

 

本周二召开的联合国大会上选举厄瓜多尔外长玛丽亚·费尔南达·埃斯皮诺萨为下任联合国大会主席。
 

 

The 193-member General Assembly, one of the highest policy-making bodies at the United Nations, will have a woman presiding over it for the fourth time in UN history.

 

Garces beat Mary Elizabeth Flores Flake², permanent representative of Honduras to the United Nations, by 128-62 votes. She will succeed Slovakia's Miroslav Lajcak and preside over the 73rd session starting from September. The tenure³ is for a year.

 

"We have the challenge of building a stronger and more efficient organization," Garces said after winning the election, adding that "strengthening multilateralism is not an option, it is an obligation."

 

"Therefore, it is urgent that the United Nations show the capacity to respond to the main global challenges, and that the organization is brought closer to the people, connecting its decisions directly to its beneficiaries, the citizens of the world," she noted⁴.

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