Kamala Harris win a milestone for gender equality:UN leadership

Top United Nations leadership hailed the election of Democrat Kamala Harris as Americas first Black and South Asiandescent woman Vice President applauding her for breaking yet another ceiling and describing it as a milestone for gender equalityUN SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres is always pleased and always welcomes any instance where women leaders where a woman gets to break a new or yet another ceiling his spokesman phane Dujarric said at the daily press briefing Monday when asked about Kamala Harris being elected as Americas first woman vice presidentIn a tweet President of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly Volkan Bozkir extended warmest congratulations to Presidentelect Joe Biden 77 and Kamala Harris 56He said Joe Biden has a long history of supporting the United Nations and Kamala Harriss historic election as Americas first woman vicepresident is a milestone for gender equalityI look forward to deepening UNUS ties amp working together towards a safer amp more prosperous world Bozkir said in the tweetKamala Harriss election as Americas next Vice President is groundbreaking as she brings to the office a litany of firsts she will be the first woman the first Black woman the first woman of Indian descent and the first daughter of immigrants to be sworn in as Vice PresidentHead of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka described the prospect of having the firstever woman as vice president as a hugely uplifting moment for women and girls the world over especially for women of colourIn a statement Guterres congratulated the American people for a vibrant exercise of democracy in their countrys elections last week He congratulates the Presidentelect and Vice Presidentelect and reaffirms that the partnership between the United States and the United Nations is an essential pillar of the international cooperation needed to address the dramatic challenges facing the world today the statement issued by the UN spokesperson saidThe UN chiefs statement did not mention Joe Biden and Kamala Harris by name using just the terms Presidentelect and Vice Presidentelect When asked at the press briefing about the statement not mentioning their names phane Dujarric said Guterres is talking about Joe Biden and Kamala HarrisThe comments by Guterres and Bozkir on Monday were the first reactions from the world organisations top leadership to the election victory of the next leaders of the organisations host country coming two days after Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were declared winners of a bitterlyfought presidential election which outgoing President Donald Trump has still not conceded despite failing to get 270 electoral college votes required to win his reelectionTrump secured 214 electoral college votes while Joe Biden won with 279 votesDirectorGeneral of the UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation UNESCO Audrey Azoulay said in a tweet that the global challenges of today call for a renewed commitment from the United States for the common good that the pillars of science education and culture representShe also noted that she was very happy to see a teacher moving into the top job at the White House in the form of Joe Bidens wife Jill Biden who has indicated that as First Lady she will continue working fulltimeHead of the UN refugee agency UNHCR Filippo Grandi said in a tweet that US leadership is more crucial than ever for the worlds most vulnerableHe warmly congratulated the pair and said the agency was looking forward to working with the new administration on global and domestic refugee issuesAntoacutenio Vitorino the DirectorGeneral of the International Organisation for Migration IOM said on Twitter that the UN migration agency was looking forward to working with the new administration on managing migration for the benefit of allEarlier head of World Health Organisation Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus congratulated Joe Biden and Harris saying we look forward to working with their administration very closelyAfter Trump made the decision to withdraw the US from WHO earlier this year in response to alleged missteps over the early course of the coronavirus pandemic the presidentelect has repeatedly vowed to rejoin the organizationJoe Biden over the weekend also tweeted out that his administration would be rejoining the Paris Climate deal on day one of the new administrationOn a question of whether the SecretaryGeneral expects the US to reenter the Paris Climate Agreement from which the Trump administration withdrew phane Dujarric said the Un chiefs strong position in defence of the Paris Climate Agreement has never wavered and Washington and the UN have a critical relationship as we face many problems throughout the worldPhane Dujarric added that theres been no direct contact yet between Joe Biden and Guterres since the election results were outKeep scrolling to read more newsCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS 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