June 8

Hungarian diplomat Csaba Korosi was elected the president of the upcoming 77th session of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.

Korosi was elected by acclamation at a General Assembly plenary session, as his candidacy was not contended.

He will take up the new post in September 2022, to succeed current General Assembly President Abdulla Shahid of the Maldives.

In his speech to the General Assembly after the election, Korosi listed five priorities for his presidency: stand firm on the basic principles of the UN Charter; make significant and measurable progress in sustainability transformation; aim at integrated and systemic solutions; enhance the role of science in decision-shaping; and increase solidarity to better tackle the crises the world is to face.

Korosi, born in 1958, currently serves as director for environmental sustainability at the Office of the President of Hungary. He began to work for the Hungarian Foreign Ministry in 1983. Among his many overseas posts, Korosi served as Hungarian ambassador to Greece between 2002 and 2006, and Hungary's permanent representative to the United Nations between 2010 and 2014.

Korosi attended college in the former Soviet Union and later studied in Israel, Britain and the United States. Apart from his mother tongue, Korosi speaks Arabic, English, French and Russian.

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