Congresswoman Lee Appointed Democratic Congressional Representative to the United Nations

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-13) connected Thursday, September 9th, 2021, announced her assignment to service arsenic Congressional Representative of the United States to the Seventy-Sixth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations. This is the 5th clip Congresswoman Lee has been appointed to this position. Congresswoman Lee volition proceed to correspond the 13th Congressional District of California portion she assumes the duties of a Representative to the United Nations. 

“I americium profoundly honored by the accidental to correspond my colleagues astatine the United Nations. I’d similar to personally convey President Biden for this assignment and Speaker Pelosi for her support. This year’s General Assembly theme, ‘Building resilience done hope’ underscores the value of Congress’s enactment with the United Nations to retrieve from COVID-19, beforehand sustainability, respond to the clime crisis, and uphold the rights of each people.

“In this relation and arsenic Chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee connected State and Foreign Operations, I volition proceed to enactment diplomacy, overseas assistance, and improvement programs and volition usage the UN Sustainable Development goals arsenic a usher to address global poverty, hunger, education, sex equality, and reproductive rights. As we retrieve from a planetary pandemic that has erstwhile again shown america the achy bequest of systemic racism and discrimination, I volition besides absorption connected the circumstantial challenges experienced by radical of African descent astir the globe.

“I look guardant to proceed moving with my colleagues to prosecute with the United Nations arsenic we reaffirm our committedness to peace, security, and lifting up marginalized communities.”