80th session of UN General Assembly opens at UN headquarters in New York

The taxable of the 80th league of the UNGA, which marks the 80th day of the founding of the United Nations, is "Better Together: 80 years and much for peace, improvement and quality rights."

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- The 80th league of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) was declared unfastened by Annalena Baerbock, the caller president of the General Assembly, astatine the UN office successful New York connected Tuesday afternoon.

The taxable of the 80th league of the UNGA, which marks the 80th day of the founding of the United Nations, is "Better Together: 80 years and much for peace, improvement and quality rights."

"The 80th league of the General Assembly is nary mean session," Baerbock said successful her opening remarks astatine the archetypal plenary gathering of the 80th session.

"80 years. Longer than the mean quality lifespan. Normally this would beryllium a infinitesimal to celebrate, but are we truly successful a temper for celebration?" the caller UNGA president asked.

Parents successful Gaza are watching their children starve, Afghan girls are banned from school, women successful Darfur are hiding their daughters from being raped, Pacific Islanders are watching seas emergence and waves thigh against their homes, and 808 cardinal radical are inactive trapped successful utmost poverty, she said.

"Instead of celebrating, 1 mightiness alternatively ask: wherever is the United Nations, which was created to prevention america from hell?" Baerbock asked.

However, the satellite needs the United Nations, and it remains the lone enactment susceptible of bringing unneurotic each state successful the world, and the lone 1 susceptible of acting connected a genuinely planetary scale, she pointed out.

This is the twelvemonth to adapt, to evolve, and to physique the United Nations we request for the adjacent 80 years -- for the lifetimes of our children, said the UNGA president. "It is simply a infinitesimal to amusement 8 cardinal radical wherefore this enactment inactive matters."

Speaking astatine the meeting, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that 8 decades ago, the founders of the United Nations gathered successful San Francisco, U.S. authorities of California, and envisioned "something different" -- a global-problem-solving assemblage that could not lone forestall calamities similar war, but could forge solutions to different age-old problems haunting humanity -- poverty, hunger, unwellness and inequality.

These efforts, built by the satellite for the world, and grounded successful the values and principles of the UN Charter, are what this Assembly is each about, Guterres said.

"The United Nations provides the place. The Charter provides the tools," stressed the UN chief, adding that the Pact for the Future, adopted past September, provided a changeable successful the limb for the multilateral strategy and the values that person defined this enactment from time one.

The UN Charter "is not self-executing," Guterres pointed out, adding that by design, it requires countries looking beyond their nationalist interests and re-building spot and religion successful 1 another, and successful what the planetary assemblage tin execute done collaboration and solidarity.

"And it requires realizing that, portion we cannot lick each the world's problems here, we tin unite down solutions that volition yet determination humanity person to a better, fairer, much peaceful and adjacent satellite for all," helium said.

A high-level week volition footwear disconnected connected Sept. 22 and tally done Sept. 30, during which satellite leaders volition stitchery to be the General Debate and a bid of conferences, including the High-level Meeting to Commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the United Nations, the SDG Moment, the High-level Meeting connected the 30th Anniversary of the Fourth World Conference connected Women, the Climate Summit, and the High-level Meeting to Launch the Global Dialogue connected AI Governance.

Baerbock was sworn successful arsenic president of the 80th league astatine the closing of the 79th UNGA league connected Tuesday morning.