The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) unanimously decided to choose Saudi Arabia to chair the 69th session of the commission during the year 2025, according to reports.
The appointment follows efforts by Saudi Arabia since the launch of Vision 2030 to help women, and the Kingdom says it will continue to do so by working with the CSW as part of its new vision for the kingdom.
Ambassador Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Wasel would be the first ever permanent representative of Saudi Arabia to chair this committee since its establishment in 1946. Al-Wasel took up his post as ambassador and permanent representative of Saudi Arabia to the UN headquarters in New York in July 2022 after serving as ambassador and permanent representative to the UN Office at Geneva since November 2016.
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) first met at Lake Success, New York, in February 1947, soon after the founding of the United Nations.
“The kingdom’s chairmanship of the committee comes as an affirmation of its interest in cooperation within the framework of the international community in enhancing women’s rights and empowerment, and it is also in line with the qualitative achievements achieved by the kingdom in this field, thanks to the special attention and care the kingdom’s leadership pays to (women’s) empowerment and rights,” state-run Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported Wednesday.
