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Mr President of the General Assembly, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, When one enters this building, the eye is drawn to a blue-hued light. It comes ...

The Security Council Chamber is decorated with a mural. In it. the Norwegian artist Per Krohg depicts a phoenix. The phoenix is rising from a world covered in a...

In Senegal last December, I met doctors and researchers who are passionate and determined to save lives, and it is thanks to international cooperation that, at ...

Nadia Murad was born in Iraq. Nadia Murad is Yazidi, and on 15 August 2014 her life changed: jihadists attacked her village. Six of her brothers were murdered b...

Mister President, Mister Secretary-General, dear Heads of Delegations, Ladies and Gentlemen, I speak to you today on behalf of the European Union. A union found...

Over the past five years, I have had the honour of representing the European Union (EU) as the President of the European Council, which comprises the Heads of S...

The European Union is fighting intensely to preserve the rules-based international order, which is currently under great strain with regard to trade, security...

The European Union (EU) stands for freedom and a credible rules- based global order, because that order is a real sine qua non condition for peace, stability an...

Last year, I stood here to assure the General Assembly that isolationism will never be Europe’s policy (see A/71/PV.16). I have not changed my mind, even though...

I am here today to reassure the General Assembly that Europe is as committed to its values and objectives now as it has ever been. Europe will stay the course, ...

The world today is much more dangerous than when we were together here last year. Fear is stronger than hope, I’m afraid. Tragic events have marked us. More ...

A year ago when we met in the General Assembly, we joined our voices to deplore the fact that the Syrian civil war had claimed over 25,000 lives. One year on...

The advance of democracy has taken place in successive waves since the United Nations was created. That advance has experienced a new acceleration, which we al...

Europe presents to you a message of cooperation, support and partnership. I congratulate the new President of the General Assembly, Ambassador Al-Nasser, of ...