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Reem Abaza, Spokesperson of PGA74
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UNcomplicated: ‘Multilateralism in action’

25 September 2020
UNcomplicated

In this special anniversary episode of our UNcomplicated podcast, hosts Sinjuda and Jason get to stay in their pyjamas to interview our colleague Reem Abaza, who spent the COVID-19 emergency working at the heart of the UN, as spokesperson for the President of the 74th General Assembly. 

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Šefik Džaferović (on screen), Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-fifth session.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

European unity is an example to the world: Bosnia and Herzegovina Head of State

23 September 2020
UN Affairs

Šefik Džaferović, the Bosnia and Herzegovina Head of State, used his address to the General Debate of the General Assembly on Wednesday to praise the European Union’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the help it has given to non-EU countries, such as his own.

Secretary-General António Guterres presents his annual report on the UN's work ahead of the opening of the General Assembly’s 75th General Debate.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

UN Secretary-General's address to the Opening of the General Debate of UNGA75

22 September 2020
General News

UN Secretary-General's address to the Opening of the General Debate of the 75th Session of the General Assembly, on Tuesday, 22 September 2020.

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14'54"
Press Briefing by the Secretary-General to mark the opening of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly
UN Photo/Cia Pak

UN Secretary-General's opening remarks at press conference

16 September 2020
General News

UN Secretary-General's opening remarks at #UNGA press conference, on 16 September 2020

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6'4"
A cleaning crew member operates a mopping vehicle inside the General Assembly Hall.
UN Photo/Manuel Elías

Quiet corridors but a full programme at virtual UNGA75: five things you need to know

6 September 2020
SDGs

The 75th UN General Assembly (UNGA) session, begins on 15 September and this year, due to the ongoing global pandemic, it will be unlike any other in the organization’s three quarters of a century of existence. 

UN Headquarters against sun rays beaming from cloudy skies
UN News/Anton Uspensky

COVID-19: World leaders to stay at home, in first ‘virtual’ UN General Assembly

23 July 2020
UN Affairs

The General Debate of the General Assembly, traditionally the most high-profile UN event of the year, will be a slimmed-down affair this September, with world leaders staying away from New York, and contributing set-piece speeches via video link, a UN spokesperson confirmed on Thursday.