Guyana yesterday took up its seat as an elected member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for a two-year term: 2024-2025.
Yesterday, Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations, Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, installed the Guyana flag alongside those of other Security Council members outside the Council chambers. Also participating in the ceremony were the other newly elected members, Algeria, Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone and Slovenia, a statement from the Permanent Mission of Guyana to the United Nations said.
In a brief statement, Rodrigues-Birkett said that the task of maintaining international peace and security is growing increasingly complex with multidimensional challenges and, that the Council is, therefore, required to be proactive in addressing potential sources of conflict, and comprehensive in its response to existing conflict situations. She said that Guyana will seek a people-centred approach, including the involvement of women and youth in the search for solutions, ever mindful that conflict is a driver of poverty and underdevelopment and therefore inimical to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.