The General Assembly will convene on Tuesday for its 79th annual session, with its first “Future Summit” to discuss issues of peace and global security, as well as the traditional high-level week.
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The key event of the General Assembly sessions is traditionally the high-level week – an event where heads of state and ministers annually come together and speak out on pressing issues. The annual debate will take place from September 24 to 28, as well as September 30.
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This year, as part of the annual session, the “Future Summit” will also be held, as a result of which the “Pact for the Future”, the Global Digital Compact and the “Declaration for Future Generations” should be approved. The event was designed to forge a new international consensus on how to achieve a better present and secure the future. It will take place on September 22 and 23.
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The seventy-eighth session will be remembered, among other things, for a number of documents and odious speeches, including a resolution recommending that the Security Council positively reconsider the issue of Palestinian membership in the UN. During the consideration of the same document, the then permanent representative of Israel to the organization, Gilad Erdan, brought a shredder to the podium and shredded the organization’s charter in it.
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On Tuesday, as part of the 78th session of the General Assembly coming to an end, its final meeting will be held, after which the new 79th session will begin. The Chairman of the 78th session, Dennis Francis, summing up the results, noted that it was “really intense.” The new session will be chaired by ex-Prime Minister of Cameroon Philemon Young.
