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Guterres to world leaders: Stay committed to UN development goals
- UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on Tuesday for finance, climate action and peace to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the 2030 deadline.
‘If we act together,’ we can overcome global challenges – UN Assembly President
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In a powerful address to the UN General Assembly, the 193-member body’s President, Philémon Yang said the annual high-level debate “remains one of the world’s most inclusive, represented, representative and authoritative platforms for global reflection of collective action”.
The world is at an inflection point but ‘there’s always a way forward’, says Biden
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United States President Joe Biden told leaders at the United Nations on Tuesday that with the world at a historical inflection point “our task, our test, is to make sure that the forces holding us together are stronger than those that are pulling us apart.”
SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Russia ‘can only be forced into peace’ says Zelenskyy
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The UN Security Council is 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." We'll have full coverage as it happens, and UN News app users can follow here.
Trust in UN’s cornerstone ideals ‘crumbling’: King Abdullah II of Jordan
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Addressing world leaders at the UN General Assembly, King Abdullah II of Jordan warned that the United Nations is facing an unprecedented crisis, one that threatens its legitimacy and undermines global trust in its moral authority.
UN’s Guterres urges global solutions as uncertain world edges toward a ‘powder keg’
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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 on Tuesday.
Lebanon escalation: Have we learned nothing from Gaza, UN humanitarians ask
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As Lebanon mourns the victims of a wave of Israeli airstrikes believed to have left hundreds dead, UN humanitarians warned on Tuesday against a return to the “dark days of 2006” when full-scale war broke out, calling for an urgent de-escalation and the protection of civilians.
Sudan crisis must not be forgotten by world leaders, says UN food agency
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Ongoing heavy fighting in Sudan has continued to kill and uproot the country’s people who global leaders should remember as they gather in New York on Tuesday, UN humanitarians have said.
LIVE: Join forces to take ‘more sustainable path’, Guterres tells world leaders
- UN News
We are on an unsustainable course, the UN Secretary General has just told world leaders gathered for the UN general debate in New York – but growing impunity, inequality and chaos can be replaced by more accountability, justice and opportunity and a future of solutions, not endless conflict. Follow all the action live, as speakers take to the podium for the general debate. UN News app users can tune in here.
Summit of the Future: Youth Driven Action Needed to Tackle Nuclear and Climate Crises
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 23 (IPS) - Driving the Summit of the Future's core messages of international solidarity and decisive action are young people who are determined to address the intersecting issues that the world contends with today.
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