The high-level meetings and debates of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) open today at the UN Headquarters in New York, United States, with about 300 heads of states and governments, vice presidents, ministers, and at least a crown prince in attendance. This is the 81st UNGA, the UN having been established in June 1945. The event itself began on 8 September, with different forums having been held involving institutions, the private sector, and civil society organisations, underscoring the collective ownership, at a person-to-person level, of the programmes and objectives of the institution. What begins today is the debate among leaders about many of the central issues of our time.
Tinubu, Shettima and the United Nations Assembly, By Reuben Abati
