Edouard Bizimana, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and Development Cooperation of Burundi, addresses the General Debate of the 80th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (New York, 23 – 29 September 2025).
World leaders will gather to engage in the annual high-level General Debate under the theme, "Better together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights".
The General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly is the opportunity for Heads of State and Government to come together at the UN Headquarters and discuss world issues. Heads of State and Government and ministers will explore solutions to intertwined global challenges to advance peace, security, and sustainable development.
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) is the main policy-making organ of the Organization. Comprising all Member States, it provides a unique forum for multilateral discussion of the full spectrum of international issues covered by the Charter of the United Nations. Each of the 193 Member States of the United Nations has an equal vote.
The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945. Currently made up of 193 Member States, the UN and its work are guided by the purposes and principles contained in its founding Charter.
General debate website: https://gadebate.un.org/
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Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Zambia, addresses the General Debate of the 80th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (New York, 23 – 29 September 2025).
World leaders will gather to engage in the annual high-level General Debate under the theme, "Better together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights".
The General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly is the opportunity for Heads of State and Government to come together at the UN Headquarters and discuss world issues. Heads of State and Government and ministers will explore solutions to intertwined global challenges to advance peace, security, and sustainable development.
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) is the main policy-making organ of the Organization. Comprising all Member States, it provides a unique forum for multilateral discussion of the full spectrum of international issues covered by the Charter of the United Nations. Each of the 193 Member States of the United Nations has an equal vote.
The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945. Currently made up of 193 Member States, the UN and its work are guided by the purposes and principles contained in its founding Charter.
General debate website: https://gadebate.un.org/
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مشاهدة هذا الفيديو باللغة العربية على موقع البث الشبكي للأمم المتحدة
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After holding a trilateral meeting with Secretary-General António Guterres, the President of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides, and the Leader of Turkish Cypriot Community, Ersin Tatar, expressed their commitment to further talks.
Christodoulides said, “what was agreed today is that immediately after the electoral process in the occupied territories, the personal envoy of the Secretary-General will visit Cyprus. He will visit the guarantor powers, he will visit Brussels, in order to prepare the ground for the enlarged conference, which will take place – as our Secretary-General mentioned – before the end of the year, with the aim, I repeat, of resuming substantive talks from where they had been suspended.”
He said the Secretary-General’s had requested “to resume talks from where they broke off in Crans-Montana,” and added that he considers it “an obligation to do everything possible to succeed.”
After holding a trilateral meeting with Secretary-General António Guterres, the President of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides, and the Leader of Turkish Cypriot Community, Ersin Tatar, expressed their commitment to further talks.
Tatar for his part said the Cypriot people “deserve progress that improves their daily lives.”
However, he said, “there is a troubling inconsistency between the words and deeds of the Greek Cypriot leadership. Since the appointment of the Special Envoy, we have seen arrests; the targeting of states that engage with us; the misuse of INTERPOL mechanisms, the rejection of assistance we offered during the forest fires, and obstructions regarding new crossings. Meanwhile, investment in armaments continues.”
The Turkish Cypriot leader said, “these actions certainly do not serve to build trust and stability or enhancing people-to people contacts.”
Nevertheless, he said, “I have today informed my commitment to maintaining a constructive and positive stance. I will continue to pursue initiatives that create a genuine atmosphere of cooperation.”
Anita Anand, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Canada, addresses the General Debate of the 80th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (New York, 23 – 29 September 2025).
World leaders will gather to engage in the annual high-level General Debate under the theme, "Better together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights".
The General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly is the opportunity for Heads of State and Government to come together at the UN Headquarters and discuss world issues. Heads of State and Government and ministers will explore solutions to intertwined global challenges to advance peace, security, and sustainable development.
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) is the main policy-making organ of the Organization. Comprising all Member States, it provides a unique forum for multilateral discussion of the full spectrum of international issues covered by the Charter of the United Nations. Each of the 193 Member States of the United Nations has an equal vote.
The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945. Currently made up of 193 Member States, the UN and its work are guided by the purposes and principles contained in its founding Charter.
General debate website: https://gadebate.un.org/
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مشاهدة هذا الفيديو باللغة العربية على موقع البث الشبكي للأمم المتحدة
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Osman Saleh Mohammed, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Eritrea, addresses the General Debate of the 80th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (New York, 23 – 29 September 2025).
World leaders will gather to engage in the annual high-level General Debate under the theme, "Better together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights".
The General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly is the opportunity for Heads of State and Government to come together at the UN Headquarters and discuss world issues. Heads of State and Government and ministers will explore solutions to intertwined global challenges to advance peace, security, and sustainable development.
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) is the main policy-making organ of the Organization. Comprising all Member States, it provides a unique forum for multilateral discussion of the full spectrum of international issues covered by the Charter of the United Nations. Each of the 193 Member States of the United Nations has an equal vote.
The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945. Currently made up of 193 Member States, the UN and its work are guided by the purposes and principles contained in its founding Charter.
General debate website: https://gadebate.un.org/
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مشاهدة هذا الفيديو باللغة العربية على موقع البث الشبكي للأمم المتحدة
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa warns that Big Tech and AI are fueling disinformation, eroding truth and threatening democracy. From manipulated elections to the collapse of journalism, she explains why information integrity is the mother of all battles—and how we can fight back.
The video features a discussion at the United Nations Headquarters, addressing concerns around AI ethics and the potential AI risk. The interview by UN News chief, Ben Malor, covers artificial intelligence safety and the importance of addressing AI dangers to ensure a secure future.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa warns that Big Tech and AI are fueling disinformation, eroding truth and threatening democracy. From manipulated elections to the collapse of journalism, she explains why information integrity is the mother of all battles—and how we can fight back.
The video features a discussion at the United Nations Headquarters, addressing concerns around AI ethics and the potential AI risk. The interview by UN News chief, Ben Malor, covers artificial intelligence safety and the importance of addressing AI dangers to ensure a secure future.
Hybrid press briefing by Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of UNRWA; along with H.E. Ayman H. Safadi, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; H.E. José Manuel Albares Bueno, Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of the Kingdom of Spain; and H.E. Mauro Luiz Iecker Vieira, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federative Republic of Brazil following the annual ministerial meeting on UNRWA.
UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said, “If ultimately, we want to get rid of the Agency, it’s important that we genuinely and truly invest in peace.”
Today (25 Sep), Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), addressed the press along with Ayman H. Safadi, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and José Manuel Albares Bueno, Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of the Kingdom of Spain.
Lazzarini said, “We had a week ago, last week, the Commission of Inquiry, which came to its conclusion, describing it as a genocide. It added, in fact, its conclusion to many other, I would say, scholars or NGOs, including Israeli NGOs, who basically concluded to the same. And it is true that Gaza today, people are experiencing hell in all its possible facets.”
He continued, “So, I think it’s very important to keep, you know, expressing total outrage on what’s going on, and of course, what part of our frustration is that this outrage has not yet been translated into meaningful action.”
He also said, “I also regularly remind this absurd or obscene reality where, on one hand, we have a fabricated famine, manmade famine in Gaza, and we have tons of goods waiting outside of Gaza. Only UNRWA as an agency, we have available the equivalent of three months of food covering the need of the population.”
About UNRWA’s financial situation, he said, “My call to the member states is to breach the situation between now and the end of the first quarter next year. Why is the first quarter next year? Because traditionally, we used to receive in January the US contribution and funding, which allowed the agency to start the year with a deficit. But now this won’t be possible, and the need for new money, in fact, is right now, $200 million.”
He added, “We also need now that we restore the humanitarian response as it was at the time of the ceasefire. It’s grotesque that it has been replaced by a system for which the main objective is to support, in fact, military and political objective – here I refer to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.”
He highlighted, “But if ultimately, we want to get rid of the Agency, it’s important that we genuinely and truly invest in peace, because the only alternative to an agency like ours are functioning, empowered, capacitated, future Palestinian institutions within a two state solutions.”
Answering a question, he said, “If we talk about the Gaza Humanitarian form, you know, we went from hundreds of distribution points to four located in the south, nearby military position, forcing, in fact, people to move from where they are. This is not the kind of impartial, independent type of humanitarian assessment based on the notion of humanity being provided to the most vulnerable one.”
Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs José Manuel Albares Bueno stressed, “Mobilization of much needed funds is right now the priority for all of us. We cannot allow – We cannot afford – UNRWA to collapse.”
Ayman H. Safadi, Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, said, “If we care about humanity, our humanity, we have to support on UNRWA, because nobody will be able to help Palestinians like on UNRWA will be able to. UNRWA now is facing tremendous challenges. On the ground, its staff is being hunted. It has no money to continue its operations, and that is why we are here to call on all member states of the United Nations to translate their political support for UNRWA expressed so articulately in the renewal of its mandate, to translate that support into action.”
He also said, “Nobody has been allowed in terms of journalists to go to Gaza and see what is going on there. But once journalists are allowed to go into Gaza, once they see how much destruction there is, once they see how many children have nobody to go to, once they realize the impact of 600,000 Palestinian kids not going to school for two years in a row, they’ll realize how much we UNRWA.”
“We have nothing to hide. We never attack civilian infrastructure,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told journalists. “Incidents happen, but we never conduct targeted fire against them.”
Speaking during his press conference on the sidelines of the General Assembly, Lavrov described what he called a “deep transformation” in global affairs. He said this reflected a clash between “an objective and historically driven process of shaping of the multipolar world” and “those who would like to maintain unipolarity.”
Lavrov said Russia does not target European countries with drones or missiles. He added that Moscow had proposed talks with Poland after recent incidents, but “no one wants to discuss facts.”
On the Middle East, Lavrov referred to discussions at a recent Arab League and Organization of Islamic Cooperation summit. He said the meetings had addressed “the atrocities that are being perpetrated on the Gaza Strip,” adding that “collective punishment targeting the Palestinian people” was prohibited under international law. Russia, he said, was ready to join efforts aimed at stopping the violence.
Turning to Iran, Lavrov said Western policies amounted to “a deliberate operation aimed at coming to the next level of choking the Islamic Republic of Iran in terms of economy and finance.”
Lavrov also commented on U.S. policy, saying, “we don’t see that the US is withdrawing from the policy of holding an open and honest dialogue.”
Asked about Ukraine, he rejected the idea of restoring the country’s 2022 borders, saying such expectations would be “political blindness.” He said Russia was acting to uphold “our legitimate interests” and those of people whom, he claimed, were marginalized by the authorities in Kyiv.
“There’s no discussion of the 2022 borders,” Lavrov said. “We’re talking about the borders which are enshrined in Russian constitution.”
He further alleged that drones were being modified to make it appear as if they were launched from Russia. While acknowledging that “serious capitals” understood the situation, he said Western elites remained “committed to the goal of suppressing Russia.”
Lavrov warned that any military steps against Russian territory would bring consequences. “A response to things like that… they will seriously regret it,” he said. “Our president has said time and time again that we will not allow for any violation of our territory, our airspace on the part of those in Europe who are openly prepared to go to war with us.”
