It’s a big day for the Prime Minister.
Justin Trudeau will participate in a virtual event with Permanent Representatives to the United Nations today, to highlight and conclude Canada’s campaign for a Security Council seat.
Trudeau said Canada has to have a strong voice in the world and the campaign for the council rests on what Canada has been doing to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
Canada has been absent from the Security Council for 20 years and the PM has made it clear that securing a seat is among his top foreign policy priorities.
Canada is up against Ireland and Norway for two available seats on the 15-member Security Council.
The council has five permanent members, the U.S., Russia, France, U.K, and China, along with ten non-permanent seats that rotate every two years.
Later today, UN ambassadors will come to the General Assembly in small groups, cast ballots and leave.
For more details on Canada’s campaign, please click here.
As an elected member of the UNSC, 🇨🇦 will call attention to the links between sustainable and inclusive economies and peace and security through our focus on #EconomicSecurity.
Ambassador Blanchard explains this important pillar of our #CanadaUNSC campaign 👇🏾 pic.twitter.com/6cMFvleuiP
— Canada Mission UN (@CanadaUN) June 15, 2020