The presidency of the UN General Assembly is primarily an honor for Hungary, said Csaba Kőrösi, the president of the General Assembly elected on Tuesday, speaking to M1 Hírado.

On Tuesday afternoon, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó informed MTI that the UN General Assembly elected the president of the 77th session in New York by popular vote. From September, Csaba Kőrösi will be the President of the UN General Assembly for one year.

Csaba Kőrösi told M1: the position is a special honor for him as well as a challenge. The UN General Assembly is the highest forum of the UN, whose main task is to determine "the direction the world should go".

This assignment is particularly important, he added, because the current crisis is so complex, unprecedented in the last forty years, Csaba Kőrösi pointed out.

In the News of the current channel M1, they said: the new president is expected to play an important role in shaping world politics and world market processes.

Between 2010 and 2014, Csaba Kőrösi headed Hungary's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, and later headed the Environmental Sustainability Directorate of the Office of the President of the Republic.

The regular session of the UN General Assembly begins in September of each year. At least three months before the start of the regular session, the chairman of the general assembly, 21 vice-chairmen and the chairmen of the six main committees of the general assembly are elected.

The post of president of the general assembly has been held by the Turkish Volkan Bozkir for the past year.

The duties of the President of the UN General Assembly include, among other things, opening, closing and presiding over the sessions of the General Assembly. The president makes a proposal for the topic of the general debate in September, and can also convene informal thematic meetings, where it is possible to listen to experts, discuss new topics, or even review controversial issues. On the basis of separate General Assembly resolutions, it can also convene and preside over high-level meetings (head of state and government, ministerial level).

In the history of the UN, there has been a Hungarian president of the General Assembly until now, in 1982-83, when Imre Hollai, then Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, held this position.

Source: Demokrata.hu

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