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Algerian Presidency of UNSC; Challenges, ...

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06.01.2025

With the start of the new year, it is good and big news for the Global South and especially Africa and Arab World including Palestine that the largest country in Africa and the third biggest economy of the continent, the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria has assumed the revolving presidency of the Security Council of United Nations on Wednesday 01 Jan for the year 2025.

What this development brings for above mentioned regions and why Algeria presidency can achieve some milestones of peace and stability here? The answer can be found in the pledges the Algerian President made in his previous tenure as well as on his re-election a couple of months ago. Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf shared the Algerian priorities during the presidency in a press conference and shed light on what Algeria intends to do at UNSC in this one year.

As far as the challenges are concerned, Algeria has a number of issues to work upon in one-year term that is the real challenge for this country. In the neighborhood, Libyan and Sudanese crisis’ are the test of Algerian diplomacy at UNSC. On the common borders with Morocco is the Western Sahara dispute. Here, Algeria itself is a party and supporter of the Sahrawi community there. In Middle East, Gaza was already calling for attention of the world body while Syria has also sought a reasonable approach from the stakeholders couple of weeks ago. This is mother of all crises indeed.

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Mr. Attaf expressed the determination of his country for supporting international legality and just causes that is need of the time when many regions in Africa and Asia are marred with conflicts and hostilities. Algeria as member of UNSC in the last year worked on the same path and claims some important........

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