New York, USA - June 6, 2024

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The UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Thursday elected former Cameroonian Prime Minister Philemon Yang as president of the 79th UNGA session.

Yang will succeed Denis Francis of Trinidad and Tobago, president of the 78th UNGA session, when the 79th UNGA session opens on Sept.10 at the UN headquarters in New York.

The president-elect called on the international community to "strengthen multilateralism", stressing that it is the foundation of the principles and the Charter of the United Nations.

He said he will be committed to promoting sustainable development, shared prosperity, harmony with nature, and "human dignity everywhere and for all" in all countries.

Yang, born in June 1947, served as Cameroonian prime minister from 2009 to 2019, and since 2020, he has been serving as the Grand Chancellor of National Orders at the Presidency of the Republic.

He served as Cameroon's high commissioner to Canada between 1984 and 2004, and has held the position of Chairperson of the Panel of Eminent Africans of the African Union since February 2020.

Following Uganda (2014) and Nigeria (2019), Cameroon becomes the 13th African country to have a representative appointed as president of the UN General Assembly.

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