The week the world comes to Manhattan: Looking back at UNGA79
Let’s try to unscramble those 10 days for you. This year, some 235 events and hundreds of speakers later, the…
Tag: Development
Ukraine: Top UN aid official condemns deadly marketplace strike in Kherson
“Yet again, another unfathomable attack of the Russian Armed Forces killed and injured civilians, this time at the start of…
Syrian Minister denounces Israel for its ‘seven-decade-long criminal record’
All of these, he told the UN General Assembly, are exacerbated by failures of multilateral diplomacy and the failure of…
UN Assembly President calls for global unity as high-level debate concludes
This year’s general debate opened with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva addressing UN’s membership. Over six days, 190…
Violations of UN Charter and international law now ‘facts of life’, Cuban Foreign Minister says
Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla said the Israeli army has “massacred” over 40,000 civilians in Gaza over the past 11 months.…
As challenges mount across the globe, ‘the world needs the UN’, Egypt says
At the same time, Israel’s brutal aggression against Gaza and its current attacks on the West Bank place shame on…
China is committed to dialogue, ‘not throwing gas on the fire’, Foreign Minister Wang says
To that end, China, jointly with Brazil and other countries of the Global South, launched a Group of Friends for…
Saudi Arabia promotes ‘appeasement and development’ in the Middle East and beyond
Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud said the world is seeing an increase in crises, and unfortunately the international community is…
Terrorists and their foreign sponsors, though ‘weakened’ still pose a threat, Mali minister warns
Addressing the UN General Assembly’s annual debate, Abdoulaye Maiga said that since 2012, Mali had been experiencing a multifaceted crisis…
‘We need a reset’ says Prime Minister of Barbados
Mia Mottley told leaders at the annual general debate that over the last four years the world has faced ‘poly-crises.’…