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From peacekeeping, to the protection of refugees and providing life-saving humanitarian aid, the work of the United Nations remained vital in a year marked by multiple overlapping crises. UNIFEED

From peacekeeping, to the protection of refugees and providing life-saving humanitarian aid, the work of the United Nations remained vital in a year marked by multiple overlapping crises. UNIFEED / FILE

The President of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Abdulla Shahid, told reporters that only 18 of the 194 speakers, about 9.2 percent, at this year’s General Debate were women, and said “if we don’t take the necessary steps to turn this tide, we will need 135.6 years, according to recent studies, to close the gender gap.” UNIFEED

Ambassador Kim Song of the DPRK told the General Assembly’s General Debate that “the possible outbreak of a new war on the Korean peninsula is contained not because of the US’ mercy” but because “our state is growing reliable deterrent that can control the hostile forces in their attempts for military invasion.” UNIFEED

“Iran cannot be allowed to think time is on its side, because the more dangerous its nuclear programme becomes, the greater the risk of a major crisis,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told the UN General Assembly on Monday. UNIFEED

Eritrean Foreign Minister Osman Salih said that it is “inexcusable” that the position of certain countries, “notably the US and its European allies, to defend the TPLF’s illicit and dangerous acts of insurrection and mayhem and marshal all the tools in their disposal to rehabilitate it at any cost.” UNIFEED

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told the General Assembly’s General Debate that Iran’s nuclear program “has hit a watershed moment, and so has our tolerance,” adding that “words do not stop centrifuges from spinning.” UNIFEED

Yemeni Foreign Minister Ahmed Awad Bin Mubarak called on the international community to shoulder its responsibility and put an end to the “arrogance” of Houthi militias through “effective and decisive pressure on the coup leaders and their sponsors to implement Security Council resolutions, to stop the bloodshed and destruction and to give way for humanitarian aid to reach all Yemenis.” UNIFEED

Malian Prime Minister Choguel Maïga told the General Assembly’s General Debate that Mali and countries of the Sahel have for 10 years faced “a many-headed serpent of terrorism, violent extremism and instability,” and “in this difficult context, the people of Mali, following several months of popular upheavals, has chosen a different direction for our country.” UNIFEED

Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia Demeke Mekonnen underscored his government’s “unreserved commitment” for the provision of humanitarian assistance and facilitate the operation of its humanitarian partners that adhere to the principles of neutrality, independence and humanity and the laws of the country, adding that “apart from this, no excuse will justify any attempt to intervene in our internal affairs.” UNIFEED