The Cost of Inaction - Urgent and Collective Support to Scale Up the Humanitarian Response in Sudan and the Region (25 September 2024, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Conference Room 4)

OPENING SEGMENT: 10:00 a.m. – 10:36 a.m

OPENING (Moderator)

Ms. Melissa Fleming (Moderator)

Under-Secretary-General, United Nations Department of Global Communications

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS

Ms. Joyce Msuya

Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator

H.E. Dr. Abdullah Al Rabeeah

Supervisor General of King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSRelief) and Adviser to the Royal Court (On behalf of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)

H.E. Mr. Obaida El-Dandarawy

Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister for United Nations Affairs (On behalf of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt)

H.E. Ms. Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the United States

H.E. Mr. Janez Lenarčič

European Commissioner for Crisis Management

H.E. Ambassador Cessouma Minata Samate

Commissioner for Health, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development

Mr. Filippo Grandi

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Distinguished speakers will have 3 minutes maximum to deliver their statements

SECOND SEGMENT: 10:36 a.m. – 10:40 a.m.

CIVIL SOCIETY FEATURED

SPEAKER

Ms. Nisreen Elsaim

Sudanese Climate and Peace Activist; Former Chair of the UN Secretary-General's Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change

THIRD SEGMENT 10:40 a.m. - 11:55 a.m

INTERVENTIONS FROM THE FLOOR

Member States and partners will have 2 minutes maximum to deliver their statement from the floor

FOURTH SEGMENT: 11:56 a.m. – 12 noon

CLOSING REMARKS (on behalf of co-hosts)

Ms. Joyce Msuya

Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator

EVENT CLOSURE (Moderator)

Ms. Melissa Fleming

Under-Secretary-General, United Nations Department of Global Communications