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The Russian ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin, died in New York on 20 February 2017. Following is the statement by Ambassador Bogyay on the occasion of his sudden death.

Intervention by H.E. Ambassador Katalin Bogyay Permanent Representative at the Plenary Debate of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly, 20 February 2017.

Member States have come together to kick off this years’ session of the Working Group on the Revitalization of the General Assembly. H.E. Mr. Peter Thomson President of the General Assembly, Ambassador Drobnjak of Croatia and the newly appointed Co-chair, Ambassador Nusseibeh of the United Arab Emirates opened the debate by stressing the need to consolidating but also to go beyond the significant achievements of the past resolutions.

Members of the Hungarian Parliament Mónika Bartos, Erzsébet Schmuck and Head of Hungarian Parliament’s IPU Secretariat Katalin Somfainé Ádám participated at the United Nations Inter-Parliamentary Union Hearing at the UN Headquarters, New York, on 14 February 2017.

Statement by H.E. Ambassador Katalin Bogyay at the panel discussion “Development Cooperation Perspective on the Role of Women in Science and Media in Implementing the SDGs” on the occasion of the Second Commemoration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, 10 February 2017.