Source: United Nations (video statements)
Remarks by António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, at the 96th plenary meeting of the 79th session of the General Assembly.
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At the closing of the GA’s 79th session, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, “the founders of this organization in 1945 recognized a fundamental fact. The strength of the United Nations depended on the commitment of countries to look beyond solely national interests — and to consider instead what we could achieve by standing as one. This truth is just as important today as it was eighty years ago. And just as effective.”