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The General Assembly will discuss and adopt resolution A/80/L.89 containing the “Political Declaration to Renew Commitment and Accelerate the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda”.
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GA/12770
The General Assembly decided today that the 2027 high-level meeting on universal health coverage will be convened under the theme, “Universal health coverage: accessible and affordable health for all by 2030”, adopting a modalities resolution for the one-day New York gathering that surmounted two proposals by the Russian Federation to alter language around stakeholder participation.
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SG/SM/23217
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks, as delivered by Earle Courtenay Rattray, Chef de Cabinet, to the General Assembly on the Observance of the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica, in New York today:
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GA/12769
The General Assembly today resumed consideration of the United States’ decades-long economic, commercial and financial embargo against Cuba, adopting an urgent proposal by Havana to re-open debate amid the “unprecedented actions of an extreme extraterritorial nature” being undertaken against the island nation by Washington, D.C.
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At 10 a.m., the General Assembly will hold its a debate on "the necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba". The Assembly last held a debate on the topic on 28 and 29 October 2025.
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At 10 a.m., the General Assembly will hold a day-long debate on the responsibility to protect and the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. The Assembly has before it the Secretary-General's latest report on the topic (document A/80/716-S/2026/362), prepared pursuant to Assembly resolution 75/277. The report analyses analyses the current context of atrocity crimes and sets out options for sustaining the commitment on the responsibility to protect at the national, regional and multilateral levels. It also proposes ways to embed prevention and protection perspectives into public policy during periods of stability, emerging risk, active crisis and post-conflict recovery.
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GA/12768
As conflicts proliferate and risks to civilians mount around the globe, embracing the “responsibility to protect” — an international norm aimed at preventing mass atrocity crimes, such as genocide — is more crucial today than ever before, the General Assembly heard today, in its annual debate on the topic.
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SG/SM/23213
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks, as prepared for delivery by Courtenay Rattray, Chef de Cabinet, to the plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the eighteenth report of the Secretary-General on the responsibility to protect, in New York today:
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GA/12767
A resolution concerning the latest review of the Organization’s counter-terrorism strategy took a vote in the General Assembly today, breaking a chain of consensus adoptions, with some delegates calling the text outdated and repetitive, while others stressed the need to preserve a collective framework.
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The General Assembly will meet at 10 a.m. to debate a draft resolution concerning the ninth review of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. The Assembly first adopted the Strategy in 2006, and it has reviewed the document approximately every two years since then. During today's day-long debate, delegates will have before them the Secretary-General's latest report on UN system efforts to implement the Strategy.