UN undersecretary Dieng visits AFP headquarters

From the Philippine News Agency (Feb 4): UN undersecretary Dieng visits AFP headquarters

The United Nations Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, Undersecretary Adama Dieng, paid a visit to AFP headquarters, Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City Wednesday afternoon.

Dieng met with AFP deputy chief-of-staff Lt. Gen. Edgar Fallorina at the Hall of Flags of Camp Aguinaldo’s General Headquarters Building at 2:30 p.m.

The UN official is in the country as resource speaker in the 2nd International Meeting Against Mass Atrocity Crimes which started last Feb. 1 and will end on Feb. 5.

The Philippines is hosting the event that is annually spearheaded by the Global Action Against Mass Atrocity Crimes (GAAMAC), a global inclusive state-led initiative to prevent mass atrocity crimes (genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity).

The GAAMAC provides a platform for exchange, dialogue, and dissemination of learning and good practice on prevention among representatives of UN Member States to build their capacities to prevent mass atrocity crimes as well as to develop and implement national preventive strategies.

Also Wednesday, Amanda Gorely, Ambassador of Australia to the Philippines, paid a courtesy call to AFP chief Gen. Hernando DCA Iriberri at 10 a.m. at the Hall of Flags.

Gorely paid her first visit to Iriberri after recently assuming her position. She replaced former Ambassador of Australia to the Philippines Bill Twedell.

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