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Highlights:

UNGA 80 General Debate – Speakers
UNGA
General Assembly/Secretary-General
Two-State Solution
Occupied Palestinian Territory
Thirtieth Anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women
SDG Moment Event
Global Initiative in Support of the Global Initiative to Galvanize Political Commitment to International Humanitarian Law
Security Council
Ukraine
Central African Republic
Sudan
South Sudan
Haiti

UNGA 80 GENERAL DEBATE – SPEAKERS
We expect about 193 delegations in total with approximately 89 Heads of State, 5 Vice-Presidents, one Crown Prince, 43 Heads of Government.
Also, about 1,642 bilateral meetings have been scheduled in the lobby of the General Assembly building, where the temporary meeting booths are.

UNGA
Tomorrow at the opening of the 80th session of the high-level session of the General Assembly, the Secretary-General will address world leaders.
His speech will be a stark wake-up call to the world, framed around the need to make clear decisions in this decisive time.
It will be an appeal for renewal and the urgency of action and moral leadership. He will call out the impunity and the lawlessness that threatens the world’s order.
His speech will be framed around a fundamental question that he will pose to world leaders: What kind of world do we want to choose to build together?
The Secretary-General will speak of the unique challenges facing our world – and the organization itself and point out that we have our work cut out for us … as our ability to carry out that work is being cut from us.
He will lay out five critical choices facing humanity: peace, dignity, climate justice, technology in the service of humanity, and a stronger UN.
He will also remind world leaders that it is not enough to know what the right choice is, we must have the courage to act.
He will also recall his own experience growing up in the dictatorship of Portugal and underscore the importance of never giving up.
We will share the Secretary-General’s remarks under embargo later today.
The Spokesman also reminded reporters that because of the many competing events, there will be no briefing Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, unless there is major breaking news.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY/SECRETARY-GENERAL
This morning, in the General Assembly Hall, the Secretary-General delivered remarks marking the 80th Anniversary of the United Nations.
Eight decades ago, he said, this organization was established to become the place where all nations, whether large or small, could come together to solve problems that no country can solve alone.
And yet, he added, at this moment, the principles of this same organization are under assault as never before.
The Secretary-General listed a number of challenges facing the world today. To address these challenges, we must not only defend the UN, he said, but we must also strengthen it.
Those remarks were shared with you.

TWO-STATE SOLUTION
This afternoon, the Secretary-General will speak at the conference on a two-state solution co-sponsored by France and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
He is expected to say that the situation on the ground is intolerable, and it is deteriorating by the hour.
He will also welcome the measures many Member States are taking to galvanize support for the Two-State solution – including pledges to recognize the State of Palestine.
The Secretary-General is to emphasize that we must recommit ourselves to the Two-State solution before it is too late – a solution in which two independent, democratic, viable and contiguous and sovereign States are mutually recognized and fully integrated in the international community.
And he will stress that statehood for the Palestinians is a right, not a reward, and denying statehood would be a gift to extremists everywhere.