President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca has been appointed Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation.
She was appointed by UNIDO director general Li Yong at a ceremony during a high-level meeting on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly.
At the same event, President Coleiro Preca was also appointed champion for the Third Industrial Development Decade for Africa to actively promote the role of inclusive and sustainable industrial development within the IDDA III framework and increase awareness of this initiative at national, regional and global level.