Global leaders converge on New York for UN general debate
A speech by President Donald Trump will kick off the 80th session of the annual general debate of the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.
Other speakers on the agenda on the first day are Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and French President Emmanuel Macron.
The speeches are scheduled to start at 9 am (1300 GMT). UN secretary-general António Guterres and General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock are also to speak.
A session of the UN Security Council on the Ukraine war, which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to attend, is also scheduled.
Around 150 heads of state and government are set down to speak over the week ahead, with the Middle East conflict and the war in Ukraine.
The UN’s precarious finances would not be left out, along with the changing geopolitical role of the United States under Mr Trump.
Vice-President Kashim Shettima, who is leading the country’s high-powered delegation to the annual global event, had since arrived in New York.
Mr Shettima is representing President Bola Tinubu at the UN epochal event.
(dpa/MAN)
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