The State of Qatar Stresses Commitment to Enhancing Women's Status
New York / Information Office / March 09
The State of Qatar stressed Friday that it is continuing its long history of enhancing the status of women, this time by establishing the Group of Friends of the UN for Gender Parity.
This came during the speech of HE the Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations Ambassador Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al-Thani in a ceremony held by Qatar's permanent delegation to the UN along that of Colombia in celebration of International Women's Day. HE the Ambassador said that the celebration serves as renewal of the call for gender parity in the international organization, as well as enhancing international peace and development efforts.
The ceremony is the first of its kind in the history of the United Nations, it had pictures of the first letter read by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1946 in the first meeting on women in the United Nations, entitled "Open Letter to the Women of the World".
The ceremony was attended by current President of the United Nations General Assembly for the 72nd session Miroslav Lajcak, Deputy Secretary-General. Amina Mohammed, in addition to permanent representatives at the UN and delegations participating in the UN meetings on women's status.