Luxembourg Signs New Agreements with UN, ICTJ in New York

During his working visit to New York earlier this week, Luxembourg's Minister for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs, Franz Fayot, signed three new agreements on behalf of the Grand Duchy.

The Minister's first visit to the United Nations (UN) headquarters, on 12 and 13 July 2021, was an opportunity to meet representatives of several partner agencies of Luxembourg's development cooperation programme, which invests 30% of the total official development assistance budget via multilateral organisations.

Minister Franz Fayot signed two new strategic partnership frameworks: one with the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), with Preeti Sinha, the new director of the fund; another with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator.

With the gender dimension being one of the new cross-cutting priorities of Luxembourg's development cooperation programme, the Minister also met with Diene Keita, Deputy Executive Director at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and Anita Bhatia, Deputy Executive Director at UN Women.

Luxembourg's Humanitarian Affairs Minister also had a meeting with Fernando Travesi, Executive Director of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), during which a new agreement was signed to strengthen research in the field of transitional justice, particularly in Tunisia and in Colombia.