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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.

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

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.