The United Nations will hold September 24, a High-level Meeting of the 67th Session of the General Assembly on the Rule of Law at the National and International Levels taking place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Currently President Paul Kagame of Rwanda is in the United States where he had also gone to attend the Rwanda Day event held in Boston Massachusettes.
During the general assembly, all Member States, non-governmental organisations and civil society represented at the highest level will discuss and agree on a forward looking agenda on strengthening the rule of law.
Words of warning and defiance are expected when US President Barack Obama, Iran’s leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu join more than 120 heads of state and government at the UN General Assembly.
Because of international divisions over the 18-month-old Syria conflict, the UN is holding no formal meeting on the civil war.
But Obama and Western leaders are expected to call for action in their speeches. The US president is one of the first speakers on Tuesday after the event is opened by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Resolution A/RES/66/102 further states that the organisational arrangements of the High-level Meeting should be as follows: The High-level Meeting will be held as a one-day plenary meeting on Monday, 24 September 2012;
The President of the General Assembly, the Secretary-General, the President of the International Court of Justice, the President of the Security Council, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme,
the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Chair of the International Law Commission, Member States and Observers, as well as a limited number of representatives of non-governmental organisations active in the field of rule of law will be invited to speak at the plenary;
The President of the General Assembly shall draw up a list of representatives of non-governmental organisations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council who will participate in the High-level Meeting;
The President of the General Assembly shall draw up a list of representatives of civil society organisations, including non-governmental organisations active in the field of rule of law and, taking into account the principle of equitable geographical representation, to submit the list to Member States for consideration on a no-objection basis, for participation in the High-level Meeting;
The General Assembly resolution A/RES/66/102 also decided that the High-level Meeting will result in a concise outcome document.
It requested that the President of the General Assembly would, in consultation with Member States, finalise the organisational arrangements of the meeting.
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