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Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, addresses the general debate of the UN General Assembly’s 76th session...
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Goodness is the best medicine for the world’s ills, says Holy See official

25 September 2021
UN Affairs

Humanity needs the “reserves of goodness present in human hearts” to confront the many challenges facing the world community, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, declared in his video address to the high-level General Debate of the UN General Assembly on Saturday.

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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Afghanistan; Myanmar, South Sudan

23 September 2021
UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva

In this week’s show, UN Secretary-General António Guterres talks about Afghanistan and other big problems that require international cooperation to fix them; details from UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Myanmar’s continuing spiral of violence, and corruption in South Sudan that’s impacting terribly on the country’s people – although there is a little bit of good news from there too, thanks to a UN mission UNMISS initiative, as we’ll hear.

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President Miguel Díaz Canel Bermúdez (on screens) of Cuba addresses the general debate of the UN General Assembly’s 76th session.
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A strong UN has key role in bringing peace, security and social justice, says Cuban President

23 September 2021
UN Affairs

Miguel Marion Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, the President of Cuba, underlined the importance of multilateralism and the UN in his speech to the high-level General Debate at the General Assembly on Thursday, during which he condemned the foreign policy of the United States.

President Kersti Kaljulaid of Estonia addresses the general debate of the UN General Assembly’s 76th session.
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‘Through the tears, solutions for a better society have sprung up’: Estonian President

22 September 2021
UN Affairs

The President of Estonia, Kersti Kaljulaid, lauded the world’s embrace of online services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on Wednesday, in her high-level General Debate speech at the 76th United Nations General Assembly session.

President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi of Iran addresses the general debate of the UN General Assembly’s 76th session...
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Sanctions are ‘US way of war’, Iranian President at UN

21 September 2021
UN Affairs

In his speech to the high-level General Debate at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi called for an end to United States sanctions against his country, describing them as a method of waging war.

Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the opening of the general debate of the UN General Assembly’s 76th session.
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Restore trust and inspire hope, UN chief says in message to UNGA76

21 September 2021
UN Affairs

With humanity on the edge of an abyss, and moving in the wrong direction, the world must wake up, Secretary-General António Guterres said in his keynote address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.