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‘Enhance solidarity’ to fight COVID-19, Chinese President urges, also pledges carbon neutrality by 2060
22 September 2020
The Chinese President Xi Jinping called for enhanced international solidarity to fight the coronavirus on Tuesday during his UN General Assembly address, declaring that his country would aim to become carbon neutral, in the wider battle against climate change, by 2060.
“We should follow the guidance of science, give full play to the leading role of…
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Look at both ‘full and empty parts’ of global glass, Turkey urges Member States
22 September 2020
Speaking on the first day of the UN High-level General Debate, the President of Turkey stressed the need to “accurately and sincerely evaluate” what is happening in the world today.
“The pandemic caught the world at a time when it was having difficulties in coping with various challenges” in globalization, rules-based international system and multilateralism, Recep Tayyip…
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Unlike neoliberalism, coronavirus does not favour ‘richest one per cent’, Cuban President tells world leaders
22 September 2020
Faced with a global pandemic that has infected millions, killed thousands, forced borders to close, upended economies, and drastically changed lives, the world today needs the United Nations today as much as it did 75 years ago, the President of Cuba underlined on Tuesday.
Addressing the UN General Assembly’s annual general debate, President…
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Brazilian President outlines action taken to address COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment
22 September 2020
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has highlighted social and economic measures his administration implemented, to address the COVID-19 pandemic and what he views as the politicization of the virus in South America’s largest country.
“From the very beginning, in my country, I warned that we had two problems to solve, the virus and joblessness, and that both issues had…
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Renew ‘collective commitment to multilateralism’, urges Assembly president
22 September 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic may have prevented world leaders coming to New York to address the General Assembly in person, but the president of the world body stressed on Tuesday that the need for deliberation, is “higher than ever”.
After banging the gavel to open this year’s General Debate, Volkan Bozkir painted a picture of pummeled economies, overwhelmed healthcare systems and…
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US delivering ‘peace through strength’: President Trump tells UN
22 September 2020
Speaking on Tuesday, United States President Donald Trump lauded the military power of his country, which, he said, demonstrates that the country is “fulfilling its destiny as peacemaker, but it is peace through strength”.
‘Dawn of the new Middle East’
Broadcast on the first day of the General Assembly’s annual General Debate, Mr. Trump’s comments were made in a pre-recorded video, in which…
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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS DIALOGUE WITH SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON MYANMAR AND STARTS DIALOGUE WITH COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON SYRIA
22 September 2020
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, and started an interactive dialogue with the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic.
During the presentation of the oral update on Myanmar, Myanmar spoke in a point of order. The following countries then took the floor, also speaking in point of order : Venezuela, China, Belarus, Australia, Denmark, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Cuba,…
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UN chief appeals for global solidarity at General Assembly, warns COVID is ‘dress rehearsal’ for challenges ahead
22 September 2020
In his centerpiece address to the historic and unprecedented 75th session of the UN General Assembly, Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday appealed for global solidarity to overcome the COVID-19, and again call for a global ceasefire during the pandemic, by the end of the year.
Addressing the largely empty General Assembly Hall in…
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REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE
22 September 2020
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section at the United Nations Information Service (UNIS), chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by the spokespersons of the World Food Programme (WFP), the Human Rights Council (HRC), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the World Health Organization, and the International Labour Organization (ILO).
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Rhéal LeBlanc, for the United Nations Information Service (UNIS), informed that the United Nations…
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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE WITH THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON THE NEGATIVE IMPACT OF UNILATERAL COERCIVE MEASURES ON THE ENJOYMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
22 September 2020
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Hears the Presentation of Reports, Starts General Debate on the Promotion and Protection of All Human Rights, Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, including the Right to Development
The Human Rights Council this morning held an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights.
The Council also heard the annual briefing by the President of the…
