UN General Assembly 73rd Session

Special Coverage of the 73rd General Debate

25 September-1 October 2018

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. Follow monarchs, presidents and prime ministers, as they define global responses to many of today’s pressing challenges, including climate change, international migration, protracted conflicts, and extreme poverty and hunger.

María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of the seventy-third session of the General Assembly, gavels to a close the General Assembly’s annual general debate.

UN Assembly wraps up annual general debate, its global multilateral role reaffirmed; now comes the task of reform

1 October 2018

Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the opening of the general debate of the General Assembly's 73rd session.

Climate change and multilateralism figure high on first day of UN General Assembly debate

25 September 2018

United Nations General Assembly prepares to hold a meeting on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals.

On day two of UN General Assembly’s annual debate, it’s multilateralism all the way

26 September 2018

Wide view of the General Assembly Hall at the opening of its seventy-third session, on 18 September 2018.

On day three, of UN Assembly debate, Israel and Palestine put sharp focus on complexities thwarting peace

27 September 2018

Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley of Barbados addresses the seventy-third session of the United Nations General Assembly.

On Day four of UN Assembly debate, leaders from vulnerable island States turn out in force to plead for climate action

28 September 2018

Constitutional President Lenin Moreno Garcés of Ecuador addresses the seventy-third session of the United Nations General Assembly.

UN Photo/Cia Pak

At UN Assembly, Ecuador pledges support for world’s ‘abandoned people’ and persons with disabilities

25 September 2018

UN Affairs

Taking the podium at the United Nations General Assembly’s annual debate, Lenin Moreno Garces, President of Ecuador, opened his address stressing that the principal of “cause and effect” can provide an opportunity for societies to change their circumstances.

María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés; President of the seventy-third session of the General Assembly; addresses the opening of the General Debate.

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‘Multilateralism is the only answer to the challenges we face,’ UN Assembly President tells world leaders

25 September 2018

UN Affairs

With a call to multilateralism and shared work towards sustainable development and equality for all, María Fernanda Espinosa formally inaugurated the seventy-third general debate of the of the United Nations General Assembly.

Secretary-General António Guterres presents his annual report on the work of the Organization ahead of the opening of the General Assembly’s seventy-third general debate.

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‘Our future rests in solidarity,’ commitment to rules-based order, UN chief tells world leaders

25 September 2018

Peace and Security

Facing a world where trust – trust in national institutions, trust among States and trust in the rules-based global order – is at a breaking point, Secretary-General António Guterres set the stage for the 73rd general debate of the United Nations with a call to rebuild solidarity, repair broken trust and reinvigorate the spirit of multilateralism.