Zelensky will attend the UNGA in person for the first time. Here are key things to know about the meeting
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) begins today and 140 heads of state and government are scheduled to attend. Six vice presidents, four deputy prime ministers and over 30 ministers of state and chiefs of delegations will also stand at the rostrum to deliver remarks for their nations.
This year the topics at the two-week summit appear more numerous, volatile and hard-to-solve than before any other UN General Assembly: Russia’s war in Ukraine, lethal floods in Libya, multiple coups on the African continent, North versus South economic funding, violent crisis in Haiti, and climate change, to name a few.
Potentially weakening the impact of the event itself is the fact that US President Joe Biden is to be the only leader of the permanent five members of the UN Security Council to attend.
In a first for the annual summit, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky will be attending in person as he continues to rally for support. Previously, he has appeared on video monitors in the General Assembly Hall.
Biden and Zelensky are set to address the assembly on Tuesday, and the leaders are expected to meet in Washington on Thursday.
UN to tackle grain deal with Russia: At a special Ukraine meeting at the Security Council table on Wednesday, prepare for Zelensky to take on Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, should he attend this ministerial meeting. There are also private one-on-one sessions between UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and Russia, Ukraine and Turkey.
The UN would like to get Russia back into the Black Sea grain deal. But Russia and Ukraine will not meet together here in New York.
“It is extremely important to fight those that are abusing their authority to limit democracy,” Guterres told reporters last week. But one Security Council diplomat has said Russia already trampled on the UN charter by invading neighboring Ukraine
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