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Sierra Leone says August UNSC presidency will press for council reform and focus on West Africa
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Sierra Leone’s representative to the United Nations said the country will use its August 2024 Security Council presidency to press for structural reform of the UNSC and to spotlight conflict prevention and peacebuilding in West Africa and the Sahel, citing the nation’s post-conflict experience.
Sierra Leone’s representative to the United Nations said the country will use its August 2024 presidency of the UN Security Council to press for structural reform and greater African representation on the body.
The representative, identified only as the Minister for Sierra Leone’s mission to the UN, told reporters that Sierra Leone assumed its current non-permanent seat on Jan. 20, 2024, returning after a previous tenure in 1971 and drawing on ‘‘a decade of civil conflict and two decades of post-conflict recovery, peacebuilding and improving democratic…
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