Office of the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes
- The Syrian Arab Republic deposits its instrument of accession to the Chemical Weapons Convention with the United Nations Secretary-General, with a request to apply the Convention ahead of its formal entry into force for the Syrian Arab Republic on 14 October 2013.
- Framework Agreement on the elimination of Syrian chemical weapons reached by the Russian Federation and the United States of America in Geneva
Left-Right: Nene Bah, Senior Gender Advisor, Office of the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region; Hon. Janviere Ndirahisha, Regional Director for the ICGLR regional training facility in Uganda; Amb. João Samuel Caholo, Executive Secretary of the ICGLR; and Faridah Kibowa, Chair of Uganda National Women Council. Kampala, Uganda, 27 Nov. 2023 (Photo: Fiona Irakoze, ICGLR).
Left to right: Bruno Lemarquis, (left) Deputy Special Representative to the UN Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO), Yacoub El Hillo, (2nd left), Regional Director for the Development Coordination Office for Africa, Susan Ngongi Namondo, UN Resident Coordinator in Uganda, Bagiire Vincent Waiswa, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uganda, Huang Xia, UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region (2nd right), and Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, (right), Special Representative of Secretary-General to the AU and Head of the UN Office to the AU (UNOAU), during the second SPG Retreat held in Kampala, Uganda. Photo (William Sila, Office of the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region).
High profile participants at the retreat on the revitalization of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and the region. Durban, South Africa, 31 October 2023 (Photo: Penangnini Toure)
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