Sassou-N’Guesso and Khalilur Rahman call for climate justice
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Les Echos du Congo-Brazzaville
President Denis Sassou-N’Guesso received Khalilur Rahman, president of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly and Bangladesh’s foreign minister, in Brazzaville on 8 November 2026. The two officials called for climate commitments to be turned into action, particularly for the forests of the Congo Basin, according to Les Echos du Congo-Brazzaville.
President of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly and Bangladesh’s foreign minister Khalilur Rahman joined Congolese President Denis Sassou-N’Guesso in calling for climate justice that takes into account the financial burden borne by Congo Basin countries, during a meeting on 8 November 2026 in Brazzaville, according to Les Echos du Congo-Brazzaville.
Khalilur Rahman visited the primary forest of Pokola, in Sangha Department, to observe the forest economy and support for indigenous peoples. He said Congo Basin countries bear a significant share of the cost of preserving forest ecosystems and made climate justice an important theme of his mandate, reports Les Echos du Congo-Brazzaville.
The two officials also discussed mobilising concrete, accessible and predictable financing for countries hosting major forest basins. Khalilur Rahman was then due to travel to Antalya, Turkey, for COP31, with the aim of giving visibility to his visit to Congo, according to Les Echos du Congo-Brazzaville.
The meeting comes two days after Denis Sassou-N’Guesso called for an acceleration of global reforestation, on 6 November. Khalilur Rahman has also made the demand for a permanent African seat on the UN Security Council one of the priorities of his mandate, according to Les Echos du Congo-Brazzaville.
