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**Mr President, distinguished delegates,** For 79 years, our countries have gathered in this hall to speak their truths, exchange best practices, and support i...

For decades, this lofty stage served an important purpose — to hold discussions on how to make life on the planet safer and better. Regrettably, over the past d...

For more than six months, the world has been living in the shadow of the conflict in Ukraine. It is adversely affecting a great many people on the planet. The c...

Exactly two decades ago, the United Nations and its leader received the Nobel Peace Prize. At the reception ceremony, former Secretary-General Kofi Anan said th...

Mr. President, Ladies and gentlemen, For good reason, this is the first time that the high week of the General Assembly’s commemorative session is being held in...

“Never forget” is a summons that has remained one of the most important watchwords of the international community since 1945. There is no question that the memo...

We live in paradoxical times, as optimism and pessimism equally characterize our lives. We recently adopted landmark documents, including the 2030 Agenda for Su...

The past few decades have been marked by two contradictory trends — increasing political fragmentation and increasing economic globalization. The first of those...

A year ago, world leaders gave the green light to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The document is now our common guide for the next 15 years. In th...

Seventy years ago, after the end of the Second World War, humankind cherished the hope that a just world order, based on mutual understanding and cooperation, m...

Humankind has only one past, but many options for the future. History is such that we know only the consequences of those actions that have occurred, but not...

I will begin with a simple question: what is the key challenge facing today’s world? I believe that it is the fact that humankind’s societal evolution has no...

We often invoke the phrase “the spirit of San Francisco”. We do that when we speak and think about positive aspects of international relations. Indeed, the mes...

Much has been said from this rostrum in recent years about global governance. Yet in fact there is a pervasive feeling that chaos is inexorably engulfing our ...

The nature of the discussions and decisions taken at the High-level Plenary Meeting has clearly demonstrated that the various problems, challenges and threat...

This General Assembly Hall is, in fact, the situation room of the entire world. It seems to me that over the years we here in this Hall have collectively und...

This session’s general political debate and high-level meetings once again convince us of the need to move in international relations from confrontation base...

All of us seated in this Hall witnessed the collapse almost two decades ago of a seemingly invincible international system based on the antagonism of two po...

It is generally considered that the struggle of ideologies has passed into history together with the collapse of the bipolar world order. Yet in reality the ...

The summit of our leaders is over. Each of us here at the General Assembly has different feelings about it. Mine, I must say, are anxiety and hope. I am anxious...