World leaders have returned to the United Nations' foremost gathering for the first time in two years with a formidable, diplomacy-packed agenda of escalating crises to tackle. 9News
In person and on screen, world leaders have returned to the United Nations' foremost gathering for the first time in two years with a formidable, diplomacy-packed agenda of escalating crises to tackle, including the still-raging COVID-19 pandemic and a relentlessly warming planet.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who opens the weeklong event, "will pull no punches in expressing his concern about the state of the world, and he will lay out a vision to bridge the numerous divides that stand in the way of progress," UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. Guterres has already demonstrated that in pointed pre-meeting remarks about the virus and climate change.
The three most closely watched speakers on Tuesday morning are expected to be US President Joe Biden, appearing at the UN for the first time since his defeat of Donald Trump in the US election last November; Chinese President Xi Jinping, who in a surprise move will deliver a video address; and Iran's recently elected hardline President Ebrahim Raisi.
Speaking last week about Biden's speech, Richard Gowan, UN director of the International Crisis Group, said "the really significant question is exactly how he frames relations with China.
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