The General Assembly’s annual high-level general debate continued into its fifth day, with Member States exchanging their views under the theme “Leaving no one behind: acting together for the advancement of peace, sustainable development and human dignity for present and future generations”.
As the General Assembly’s annual high-level general debate continued into its fourth day, the leaders of many small island developing States took the podium to repeat a warning they have been sounding for decades — that the international community must urgently act to support nations suffering the consequences of a crisis they did not create and cannot weather alone.
World leaders addressed multiple flashpoints and volatile crises in the Middle East and elsewhere during the third day of the General Assembly’s annual high-level general debate, with Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine, urging the international community to hold Israel to account for carrying out a “full-scale war of genocide” and stressing that the Palestinian people “will not allow a single centimetre of Gaza to be taken”.
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the High-Level Meeting Commemorating and Promoting the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, in New York today:
Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s message on the occasion of the High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance, in New York today:
The representatives of small island developing States and low-lying countries today urged immediate international action to combat sea-level rise — a global crisis threatening the lives and livelihoods of 1 billion people worldwide — during the General Assembly’s inaugural high-level meeting on the issue.
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ address at a joint meeting of the Group of 20 (G20) foreign ministers, the United Nations system and international financial institutions, held in New York today:
Acknowledging the complex global problems facing beleaguered multilateral institutions, African leaders called today for not just a permanent seat at the Security Council table, but for an elevated presence in international affairs that reflects the continent’s potential, power and resources.
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the opening of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on addressing the existential threats posed by sea level rise, in New York today:
The rising level of impunity in the world is “politically indefensible and morally intolerable”, with many Governments and actors feeling entitled to a “get out of jail free” card, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned in his address to the General Assembly today as its annual high-level debate began, with world leaders raising alarm about the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.