UN affairs

Delivering a powerful address to world leaders gathered for the opening day of the General Assembly’s high-level debate, the Secretary-General said: “Our world is in big trouble. Divides are growing deeper; inequalities are growing wider; challenges are spreading father… we need hope… we need action across the board.” With evocative…

Acknowledging that the world faces uncertainty and widening geopolitical fissures, Csaba Kőrösi reminded delegates that the United Nations was created out of the ashes of war and destruction, with the intention of being “a well of solutions”. “Responding to humanity’s most pressing challenges demands that we work together, and that…

“The accomplishments of the last year would not have been possible without…Abdulla Shahid,” said Secretary-General António Guterres. “Despite the unprecedented times, he gathered Member States together in common cause”. Profound trials Like the previous one, this session was marked by a series of deepening challenges, he told the participants, citing…

UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe Csaba Kőrösi, President-elect of the seventy-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly, addresses members of the General Assembly. A Hungarian President takes the gavel A new session means a new President of the General Assembly. The current PGA – as the UN acronym goes – Abdulla…

UN chief António Guterres established the Panel to support and strengthen the IGF, an annual meeting to discuss public policy issues pertaining to the Internet.   Panel members will address strategic and urgent issues and highlight Forum discussions, as well as possible follow-up actions, to promote greater impact and dissemination…

The first democratically-elected President of South Africa, and the country’s first Black leader, died in December 2013 at age 95. The annual commemoration on 18 July, his birthday, recognizes his contribution to the culture of peace and freedom.  Mr. Mandela – affectionately known as “Madiba”, his Xhosa clan name –…