Meetings & Events
421st Meeting of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP)
On 5 February 2025 at 3 p.m. in the ECOSOC Chamber, the CEIRPP will organize its first annual meeting to elect its Bureau and adopt its annual Programme of Work.
As customary, the Secretary-General participates in the meeting and will preside over the election of the Bureau. Following the election, the new Bureau will hold press briefing outside the ECOSOC chamber.
The meeting will hear a briefing by Mr. Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and by Mr. Hani Almadhoun, Co-Founder of Gaza Soup Kitchen.
Briefers include newly elected members
Ambassador Coly Seck, Permanent Representative of Senegal, Chair
Ambassador Neville Melvin Gertze, Permanent Representative of Namibia, Vice-Chair
Ambassador Jaime Hermida Castillo, Permanent Representative of Nicaragua, Vice-Chair
Ambassador Hari Prabowo, Deputy Permanent Representative of Indonesia representing Ambassador Arrmanatha Christiawan Nasir, elected as Vice-Chair Ambassador
Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, Permanent Representative of Cuba,
Vice-Chair Ambassador Ahmad Faisal Muhamad, Permanent Representative of Malaysia,
Vice-Chair and Rapporteur Ambassador Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the Observer State of Palestine
Adoption of the agenda
- Item 1 Election of officers
- Item 2 Statement by the Secretary-General
- Item 3 Update by the Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations
- Item 4 Briefing by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) -
-Item 5 Briefing by Mr. Michael Fakhri, Special Rapporteur on the right to food
- Item 6 Briefing by Mr. Hani Almadhoun, Co-Founder of the Gaza Soup Kitchen
- Item 7 Adoption of the programme of work for 2025
- Item 8 Other matters
- Item 9 Links to additional