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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau began his visit to the United Nations today, telling Mandela's Peace Summit delegates that Canada would continue to uphold the rule of law, democracy and human rights in Canada. abroad.
"In honoring Nelson Mandela's legacy, Canada is reaffirming its determination to advance the work that it has undertaken," said Trudeau. "Canada will continue to denounce the unfair treatment of racial and ethnic minorities, women and girls, indigenous peoples."
The summit is held one day before the start of the 73rd session of the General Assembly to mark the centenary of the birth of the former South African president.
"We will continue to speak in favor of Rohingya refugees, Yazidis from northern Iraq, the Venezuelan people," Trudeau continued.
"Canada will always defend democracy, the rule of law and human rights at home and abroad Peace is the work of many generations (Mandela) has championed the cause of peace and we must continue to carry the torch The flames of his ideals must subsist in all of us. "
Trudeau noted that Prime Ministers Brian Mulroney and Joe Clark helped organize the global pressure campaign that helped end apartheid, by building strong ties with Mandela.
Trudeau is in New York to participate in several UN events on Monday, including a series of meetings on financing for sustainable development, discussions on girls' education and a meeting with the Prime Minister of Barbados , Mia Mottley.
Trudeau also hopes to reverse the recent trend of being expelled from one of the temporary seats on the UN Security Council.
The Security Council is composed of 15 members: five permanent members – China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States – and 10 non-permanent members chosen in the rotating elections.
Nearly two years from the 2021 United Nations Security Council ballot, there are three candidates: Ireland, Norway and Canada.
Until 2000, Canada had secured a seat on the Security Council during every decade of the UN's existence, without ever losing an offer, but that changed when the Stephen Harper government tried the feat in 2010.
A voting model
Then, as now, Canada and two European countries (Germany and Portugal) were competing for two places.
Germany won the necessary two-thirds majority in the first round. In the second round, Portugal was so far ahead of Canada that the Harper government asked its diplomats to withdraw to avoid a humiliating loss.
The votes cast by Canada in favor of Israel – sometimes being part of a minority composed of the United States, Canada, the Jewish state and some small Polynesian and Melanesian islands that generally allow in the United States to dictate their votes of nations.
The Trudeau government maintained this voting pattern.
