The new Permanent Representative of Kiribati to the United Nations, Teburoro Tito, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.

The new Permanent Representative of Portugal to the United Nations, Francisco António Duarte Lopes, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.

The new Permanent Representative of the Bahamas to the United Nations, Sheila Carey, presented her credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the opening of the seventy-second session of the General Assembly, in New York today:

Commencing the seventy-second session of the General Assembly today, President Miroslav Lajčák said his tenure would be a “year of firsts” and called upon Member States to come together to help people striving for peace and a decent life.

The new Permanent Representative of Côte d’Ivoire to the United Nations, Bernard Tanoh-Boutchoué, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.

The new Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations, Mohammad Hussein Ali Bahr Aluloom, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.

The new Permanent Representative of Guinea-Bissau to the United Nations, Fernando Delfim da Silva, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.

The new Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations, Tore Hattrem, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.

The new Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations, Diego Morejón-Pazmiño, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.