Libreville, Tuesday December 19, 2023 (Infos Gabon) – On the sidelines of the talks he had yesterday with senior officials of the United Nations, President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema officially opened the country’s diplomatic mission in the American economic capital. The press release from the Gabonese presidency.
Staying in New York as part of a working meeting with the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Antonio Gutteres, the President of the Transition, President of the Republic, Head of State, His Excellency Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema proceeded on the sidelines of this to the inauguration of the diplomatic mission of Gabon in New York.
Named “The House of Gabon” and owned by the Gabonese State, the permanent mission of Gabon located on 42nd Avenue in New York has the mission of providing consular assistance to Gabonese nationals.
The Ambassador Permanent Representative of the Gabonese Republic to the United Nations, Mr. Michel Xavier Biang, took the opportunity of this ceremony to recall the missions carried out by Gabon in the Security Council. These include, among other things, coverage of the UN General Assembly and its six major committees, monitoring of bilateral cooperation with around a hundred countries, Gabon’s representation at the G77 and the non-governmental movement. -aligned.
In addition, our country chaired the sanctions committees on the DRC, South Sudan and Haiti throughout its mandate on the Security Council.
At the regional level, Gabon successfully carried out the strategic reconnection of the country with the African diplomatic bloc like the NATO military operation against Libya.
After visiting the premises, the President of the Transition congratulated the staff of the diplomatic mission for their zeal to restore the image of the country. He also urged them to get involved in the development and mobilization of Gabon’s resources.
Among the highlights which marked this event, we note the decoration ceremony of officers and knights in the Gabonese National Order of Merit as well as officers and Knights of the National Order of the Equatorial Star under the leadership of Admiral Yves Keba Malekou.
This tribute to around fifteen staff of the permanent mission and to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Regis Onanga Ndiaye was
the opportunity for the recipients to express their gratitude and reaffirm to the Head of State their desire to raise the colors of the new Gabon on the diplomatic scene.
In addition, the Head of State met with a series of businessmen working in the fields of Security, Health and the environment. They are respectively Mr Ross Den (Security Consultant), Edward Sitt (President of the Allstate Medical Products structure) and Vivek Sud, (Consultant within the eponymous company).
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