UNGA : World Leaders Rekindle Hope For Global Poverty Eradication

As curtains close on the weeklong general debate of the 74th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, USA, the organization has already figured out some of the main issues world leaders would want addressed before its 75th anniversary next year. 

The President of this year’s General Assembly, Tijjani Muhammad-Bande,in a Monday September 30 briefing with reporters attending the 2019 RAF Journalism Fellowship, said many world leaders cited poverty reduction as an issue of global concern when they addressed their peers at the GA.

“Leaders expressed what they viewed the world to be and what their concerns were... Each President and his delegation at the assembly have the right and authority to tell the polity what their concerns are. That’s the only way we can move together to understand what Cameroon for instance, sees as important for the world. Analytics are done at the end of the session to see the main issues that generated the attention of delegations,” he explained.

He also furthered that countries also present what they want to contribute to the priorities set out by the presidents in the current session. For this session, he said, the priority included poverty eradication,quality education, climate action and inclusion. “So each delegation said what its own urgent matters were and how it was going to contribute to reaching the priorities set out in the 74th session,” he emphasized.

He said that after the session, there will be activities taken from the mandate of the 74th session and what delegates were talking about. They will be advanced ...