"TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL"

General Assembly President Csaba Kőrösi said it was time “to get serious about debt relief in Middle-income countries, which host the majority of the extreme poor in the world,’ and called for the international community “to go beyond GDP as the primary measure of development.” UNIFEED

The President of the General Assembly, Csaba Kőrösi, said that while the “darkest days” of COVID-19 have passed, questions just continue to linger, “When will the next pandemic break out? Where and how will it hit humanity? What can we do to prevent it? How should we ensure that it causes the least possible damage to our societies?” UNIFEED

Ukraine’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kuleba, said Russia “has committed all kinds of crimes against the Ukrainian people for the past nine years, violating every bit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” UNIFEED

General Assembly President Csaba Kőrösi laid out his priorities for the remainder of the 77th session of the General Assembly, and said it is up to the General Assembly to develop transformative solutions and to implement them in solidarity. UNIFEED

Pakistan passed the chairmanship of the Group of 77 and China to Cuba, in a ceremony in New York where the UN Secretary-General said “we can draw a straight line between the hardships suffered by your people, and the continued failure of developed countries and global institutions to support developing countries on multiple fronts.” UNIFEED

Briefing by Paulina Kubiak, Spokesperson for the President of the 77th Session of the General Assembly.

General Assembly takes up draft resolution condemning Russian Federation’s annexation of several territories in eastern Ukraine, resuming emergency special session.