A UN General Assembly session (Photo: Xinhua/VNA)

Ambassador Omar  Zniber told the Council after being elected that he considers it an honor for both Morocco and for him personally.

He said he now has a duty to work to “meet the requirements of our common work” which are "so important and so fundamental: the promotion of, respect toward, and guarantee of human rights as universally recognized.”

Zniber, whose presidency takes immediate effect, joins Ambassador Febrian Ruddyard of Indonesia, Ambassador Darius Staniulis of Lithuania, Ambassador Marcelo Eliseo Scappini Ricciard of Paraguay, and Ambassador Heidi Schroderus-Fox of Finland, who were elected on Monday as Council vice-presidents.

Omar Zniber has held the position of Permanent Representative of the Morocco Delegation to the UN Office in Geneva since 2018. Before that he had served as Morocco's Ambassador to Germany since January 2012.