PH AMBASSADOR TANG PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO UN UNDERSECRETARY GENERAL IN NAIROBI

NAIROBI, 18 May 2022 – PH Ambassador Marie Charlotte G. Tang presented her credentials to UN Undersecretary-General and the Director-General of the United Nations Office in Nairobi (UNON) Zainab Hawa Bangura today.

During the ceremony, they discussed current events including COVID-19 developments, and UNON’s future projects.  Welcoming the presence of another female Ambassador, Undersecretary General Bangura shared that UN Secretary General António Guterres has made it a mission to achieve UN system-wide gender parity by 2028 which UNON has been implementing since 2017.  PH Permanent Representative Tang shared that the Philippines is ranked second in gender equality in the Asia-Pacific Region.  

UNON hosts 27 UN regional offices, including the headquarters of two UN global authorities: the UN Environment Fund (UNEP) and UN Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat). 

UNON was established in 1996, becoming one of the four major UN office sites along with New York, Geneva and Vienna, and is the UN’s only headquarters in Africa and the global south. END