Special Coverage of the 74th General Debate
- IHRC NEWSROOM
- Sep 27, 2019
- 4 min read
As world leaders gather in New York in the coming days, the curtain will rise on the busiest diplomatic season of the year at United Nations Headquarters.Here, UN News gives you a front row seat to all the action during the General Assembly’s annual high-level segment, known as the general debate. This year, the debate will run alongside a series of key summits and meetings, guided by the UN’s landmark Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), seeking to boost action on climate change and accelerate progress on sustainable development: ♦ 21 September – Youth Climate Summit; ♦ 23 September – Climate Action Summit and the High-level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage; ♦ 24 and 25 September – Sustainable Development Goals Summit; ♦ 26 September – High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development; ♦ 27 September – Small Island Developing States.
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President of Cyprus Addresses General Assembly
As ‘the last European divided country’, Cyprus President tells Assembly UN is ‘the only way forward’
26 September 2019
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FIbrahim bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s 74th session.
26 September 2019
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Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine, addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly’s General Debate. (26 September 2019)
26 September 2019
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Taban Deng Gai, First Vice President of the Republic of South Sudan, addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly’s General Debate. (26 September 2019)
26 September 2019
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Lionel Rouwen Aingimea, President of the Republic of Nauru, addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly’s General Debate. (26 September 2019)
26 September 2019
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Israel Katz, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Intelligence of the State of Israel, addresses the general debate of the 74th session of the General Assembly.
26 September 2019
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Zoran Zaev, President of the Government, Republic of North Macedonia, addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly’s General Debate. (26 September 2019)
26 September 2019
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Félix Antoine Tshilombo Tshisekedi, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly’s General Debate. (26 September 2019)
26 September 2019
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Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly’s General Debate. (26 September 2019)
26 September 2019
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Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo, President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly’s General Debate. (26 September 2019)
26 September 2019
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President of Cyprus Addresses General Assembly
As ‘the last European divided country’, Cyprus President tells Assembly UN is ‘the only way forward’
26 September 2019
UN Photo/Cia Pak
FIbrahim bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s 74th session.
26 September 2019
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26 September 2019
Somalia is “the perfect example of the success of the multilateral system,” President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed told the UN General Assembly on Thursday, while acknowledging that the Horn of Africa country still needed international and regional support and cooperation, particularly to deal with threats from Al-Shabab.
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26 September 2019
The United Nations, and the world, have a moral responsibility “to apply utmost pressure with every tool available … to end the terrorist and aggressive conduct of the Iranian regime,” Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister told the General Assembly on Thursday evening.
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26 September 2019
The international community must join together to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, the Foreign Minister of Israel told the UN General Assembly on Thursday evening.
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26 September 2019
As a United Nations Member State more than two deacades, Thursday was the first time the Republic of North Macedonia addressed the General Assembly under its settled-upon name after “a 27-year-old difference with Greece”.
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26 September 2019
Through the cooperation of the leaders of South Sudan, First Vice-President Taban Deng Gai on Thursday told the United Nations General Assembly that his country could become “a beacon of hope and peace”.
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26 September 2019
Climate change is putting Pacific tuna fish stocks at risk, potentially creating an “economic Armageddon” for Nauru, President Lionel Aingimea warned the UN General Assembly on Thursday.
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26 September 2019
The suggestion by some earlier this week at the UN that there is an immanent conflict between patriotism and globalism “is false and dangerous, even if it has many followers and powerful propagators,” European Council President said on Thursday.
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26 September 2019
With Africa at the centre of many global challenges, it is time for the continent to have a seat in the UN Security Council, the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) told world leaders on Thursday.
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26 September 2019
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday denounced what he called “arrogance and aggression” by the Israeli Government and called on the United Nations to push harder for the two-state solution to resolve the conflict.
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26 September 2019
Progress made in reducing the danger posed by nuclear arsenals has not only come to a halt, “it is going in reverse”, and any use of a nuclear weapon in the future would ignite “a humanitarian catastrophe.”
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