Every September when UN Headquarters in New York is swamped – massive motorcades, intense security, snipers on rooftops and world leaders descending along with throngs of diplomats, media and celebrities – it's not easy to grasp what exactly is going on or what was achieved.
Now, 235 events and hundreds of speakers later, the spotlight was shone on what the world was facing – how to move towards a revamp of an outdated global economic order, forging new pathways to peace, and finding solutions to the growing threat of nuclear war, global public health challenges, climate disruption and dangerous levels of impunity, inequality and uncertainty.
This UNGA79 Digest invites you to look back at the 10 days of intensive political discussions, as covered by UN News and other divisions of the Department of Global Communications, with most important events coming to you in a LIVE BLOG format. | | To offer you a first-hand experience of the General Assembly and the high-level events that surrounded it, we actively involved our live-blogging capacity so that you have the reliable and verified information right from the centre of the world politics, with a range of milestone events including the Summit of the Future, the HIgh-level meeting on Antimicrobial resistance, the Security Council meetings on Ukraine and on Middle East and more. | | World leaders adopted the Pact for the Future by consensus. This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reimagine the multilateral system and steer humanity on a new course to meet existing commitments and solve long-term challenges. Read more | | |
Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, is an invisible killer, so world leaders held a high-level meeting at UN Headquarters in New York to discuss the best ways forward, adopting a political declaration that focuses on a coordinated response to one of the most serious public health threats. Read more | | | At the UN Security Council meeting for a high-level briefing on the Ukraine war. The UN Secretary-General told foreign ministers and ambassadors that Russia's invasion of Ukraine since 2014, when Moscow took Crimea, was "a clear violation of the UN Charter." Read more | | |
The UN Security Council debated the current situation on the ground in war-torn Gaza on Friday, where Israeli strikes have killed more than 41,500 Palestinians amid mass displacement and stymied humanitarian efforts as Israel continues hampering the entry of lifesaving aid. Read more | | | High-level week addresses
Important meetings and events are aplenty during the High-level week. Yet, it's the addresses to the UN General Assembly by Heads of States and Government that drive everybody's attention.
The world is locked in a "purgatory of polarity" with a growing number of governments and others feeling entitled to a "get out of jail free card", Secretary-General António Guterres told the UN General Assembly, which opened its annual high-level meeting. Delivering his 2024 report on the UN's work ahead of the general debate, Mr. Guterres said world leaders were gathering in the shadow of raging conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan and elsewhere, and rising uncertainty over climate change, ending poverty and reigning in AI.
Check here for the in-depth coverage of the key speeches of the leaders from the world's most famous rostrum. | | Top politicians, diplomats, public figures and celebrities gathered in New York to discuss matters of paramount importance, with peace at the center of it all. And its not just through texts that we tell you about UNGA79.
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| | On this episode of Focus on the Future, Conor Lennon and Ben Malor from UN News concentrate on international peace and security, and how the Pact for the Future could help to reduce tensions. Read | | | Education is always the first public spending to be cut in a crisis and the last to be restored, according to the UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown.
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