{"id":60304,"date":"2020-06-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/60304\/lebanon-elected-as-vice-president-of-un-general-assembly"},"modified":"2020-06-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T00:00:00","slug":"lebanon-elected-as-vice-president-of-un-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/60304\/lebanon-elected-as-vice-president-of-un-general-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon Elected As Vice President Of UN General Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"Some good news for a change!<br \/>  <br \/>  Lebanon has been elected as one of the new Vice Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly which will be convening for its 75th session this year. <br \/>  <br \/>  <b><i>Editorial Purpose:<\/b> We are sharing this piece of content to spread some good energy and shed light on great local initiatives.<\/i><br \/>  <br \/>  Lebanon&#8217;s top UN diplomat, Amal Mudallali, was voted into the position on Monday and immediately took to Twitter to share the good news.<br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am proud to announce that Lebanon was elected Vice President of the UNGA 75 th session. Being one of the VPs of this historic session makes me so hopeful that our country and people will always prevail no matter what the challenges are. One of founders of UN will be VP 4 UNGA75 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rTHrcbrThI\">pic.twitter.com\/rTHrcbrThI<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Amal Mudallali (@AmbMudallali) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmbMudallali\/status\/1277647369153191938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  Traditionally, 21 vice presidents are elected for each year-long UNGA session to represent all areas of the world.<br \/>  <br \/>  Alongside Lebanon, other countries that won the vote include Jordan, Libya, Paraguay, Monaco, Cameroon, and more.<br \/>  <br \/>  Do you think they remember that one time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/59267\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Lebanon didn&#8217;t pay their UN membership dues<\/a>?<br \/>  <br \/>  More like this:<br \/>  <br \/>  <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/59267\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Lebanon Loses Voting Rights At UN For Failing To Pay Membership Fee<\/a><\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/59279\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Update: Lebanon Pays UN Membership Dues<\/a><\/b>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some good news for a change!<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon has been elected as one of the new Vice Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly which will be convening for its 75th session this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":435409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-60304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"authorship":[144],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lebanon Elected As Vice President Of UN General Assembly<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Some good news for a change! 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