Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, arrived at the organization’s headquarters in New York City on Monday to present his diplomatic credentials to Secretary General António Guterres.
Posting on his X account, the newly appointed envoy said that he has “returned to the U.N. as Israel's Ambassador during one of our most challenging times, with 115 Israelis still being held captive, enduring unimaginable horrors,” while promising he would advocate for the hostages until “all our boys and girls are home.”
I have returned to the UN as Israel's Ambassador during one of our most challenging times, with 115 Israelis still being held captive, enduring unimaginable horrors. I call on the UN to demonstrate the moral clarity needed to confront such evil. We won’t stop until all our boys… pic.twitter.com/TeQTXXExYq
— Danny Danon 🇮🇱 דני דנון (@dannydanon) August 19, 2024
Danon, who has served in the Knesset as a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, previously held the post from 2015-2020 before it was announced in June that he would be replacing the incumbent representative Gilad Erdan.
In his earlier term, the 53-year-old from Ramat Gan was elected to head the General Assembly’s Sixth Committee, becoming the first Israeli to hold the chairmanship of a permanent U.N. commission.
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