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At 9 a.m., the General Assembly's general debate continues under the theme “Restoring trust, managing transformation: A United Nations that delivers for all”.

The Security Council will hear a briefing at 10 a.m. today by Barham Salih, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He is expected to address forced displacement worldwide, rather than a single country.

At 9 a.m., the General Assembly's general debate continues under the theme “Restoring trust, managing transformation: A United Nations that delivers for all”.

The General Assembly today will hold a high-level meeting on rising sea levels. Occurring on the margins of its ongoing high-level debate, the meeting aims to address the existential threats posed by this phenomenon. The meeting aims to renew high-level political attention to sea-level rise as a cross-cutting issue that implicates climate action, sustainable development, peace and security, human rights and international cooperation. The aim is to shift the international response to the phenomenon from fragmented initiatives towards sustained, coordinated and adequately financed action.

At 9 a.m., the General Assembly's general debate continues under the theme “Restoring trust, managing transformation: A United Nations that delivers for all”.

The Security Council will hold a briefing today at 11 a.m. under the formal agenda item “Maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine". Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, is expected to brief the Council.

The Security Council will hold a high-level briefing today at 3 p.m. to discuss artificial intelligence (AI) under its "maintenance of international peace and security" agenda item. Convened by France, Council President for September, the meeting will be chaired by Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France. The Council is expected to hear from Yoshua Bengio, Co-Chair of the UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on AI; Sam Altman, Chief Executive Officer of OpenAI; Dario Amodei, Chief Executive Officer of Anthropic; and Clément Delangue, Chief Executive Officer of Hugging Face.

As world leaders gather in New York for the opening of the eighty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly, the general debate will unfold at a moment of profound global uncertainty and transformation. Under the theme “Restoring trust, managing transformation: A United Nations that delivers for all”, Heads of State and Government will take the iconic UN podium to outline their priorities and visions for addressing today’s most pressing challenges. From conflicts and humanitarian crises to runaway artificial intelligence (AI), climate action, sustainable development and economic resilience, this year’s debate is expected to spotlight the urgent need for renewed multilateral cooperation in an increasingly fragmented world.