Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Cabinet Member, and Climate Envoy Adel Al-Jubeir met on Thursday with United Nations Undersecretary-General and Executive Secretary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Yasmine Fouad, during his visit to the convention’s secretariat in Bonn, Germany.
The meeting featured discussions on land degradation and drought, a review of Saudi Arabia’s presidency of the UNCCD 16th session of the Conference of the Parties, and an exchange of views on prospects for future cooperation.
Al-Jubeir also took part in a panel discussion addressing land degradation and drought, where he highlighted their political implications for security, stability, migration, and humanitarian pressures. He emphasized the need to strengthen international cooperation at all levels to restore degraded land and mitigate the escalating impacts of drought.
He also stressed that preventive measures are essential to reducing the risks of conflict and increasing displacement and migration, which pose growing security, political, and humanitarian challenges, and called for greater global awareness of these interconnected issues.
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