{"id":203186,"date":"2021-09-26T18:55:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T16:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/us-ambassador-to-the-united-nations-mrs-linda-thomasgreenfield-pays-courtesy-visit-to-president-dr-hage-g-geingob-on-margins-of-the-united-nations-general-assembly?lang=en"},"modified":"2021-09-26T18:55:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T16:55:47","slug":"us-ambassador-to-the-united-nations-mrs-linda-thomas-greenfield-pays-courtesy-visit-to-president-dr-hage-g-geingob-on-margins-of-the-united-nations-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/us-ambassador-to-the-united-nations-mrs-linda-thomas-greenfield-pays-courtesy-visit-to-president-dr-hage-g-geingob-on-margins-of-the-united-nations-general-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"US Ambassador to the United Nations, Mrs Linda Thomas-Greenfield pays Courtesy Visit to President Dr Hage G. Geingob on Margins of the United Nations General Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/thumb\/283b1a3b403c794\/600\/418\" alt=\"The Presidency of the Republic of Namibia\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, 24 September 2021, US Ambassador to the United Nations, Mrs Linda Thomas-Greenfield paid a courtesy call to President Hage G. Geingob on the margins of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly.&nbsp;President Geingob accentuated the need for vaccine equity in order to ensure that everyone was safe instead of the current situation where industrialized nations were talking about booster shots.&nbsp;Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield announced that the United States had donated 100 000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, with the consignment having arrived in Windhoek, Namibia.&nbsp;President Geingob thanked the United States for the vaccines.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>President Geingob emphasized the importance of the principle of sovereign equality and Namibia&#039;s pursuit of an independent foreign policy.&nbsp;Outlining a shared commitment to multilateralism, the two leaders highlighted the centrality of the rule of law, processes, systems and institutions in Governance.<\/p>\n<p>President Geingob informed that Africa had gone through different waves of leadership, each characterized by my diverse sets of challenges.&nbsp;However, Africa today was markedly different, with a third wave of leadership placing greater accent on democratic governance.&nbsp;&ldquo;It is African leaders who through the African Union and Regional Organizations condemn a coup d&#039;&eacute;tat and unconstitutional changes of Government in member states&rdquo;, President Geingob said.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing, the climate change crisis, the two leaders agreed that more needed to be done to deal with the climate emergency through stronger partnerships between the public and private sectors.&nbsp;The meeting highlighted the US Mega-Solar initiative in Southern Africa as one that held the tremendous potential for Namibia and the United States.&nbsp;The leaders also agreed on the need to deal with discrimination, including reform and improvement of the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of The Presidency of the Republic of Namibia.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"well well-sm\"><b>Media files<\/b><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/7e73531c203a00b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/7e73531c203a00b\" alt=\"The Presidency of the Republic of Namibia\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/7e73531c203a00b\">Download logo<\/a><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, 24 September 2021, US Ambassador to the United Nations, Mrs Linda Thomas-Greenfield paid a courtesy call to President Hage G. Geingob on the margins of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly.&nbsp;President Geingob accentuated the need for vaccine equity in order to ensure that everyone was safe instead of the current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-203186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/us-ambassador-to-the-united-nations-mrs-linda-thomas-greenfield-pays-courtesy-visit-to-president-dr-hage-g-geingob-on-margins-of-the-united-nations-general-assembly.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}