The President of the Government, António Costa, attends this Tuesday in New York the opening of the general debate of the 77th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly and meets with members of the Portuguese community.
António Costa arrived in New York on Monday to participate in the annual general debate between representatives of the 193 UN countries, in which he will speak on Thursday, returning to Portugal that day.
The meeting between world leaders in this session of the UN General Assembly is the first since the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine on February 24, starting a war that has lasted for almost seven months.
The 77th session of the UN General Assembly has as its motto “Solutions through solidarity, sustainability and science”. The theme of the general debate is “A defining moment: Transformative solutions for interconnected challenges”.
Following the tradition at the UN, the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, will be the first to speak, at a time of internal campaign, less than two weeks before the Brazilian elections on October 2, in which he is a candidate for office. .
On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, António Costa has scheduled a meeting for this Tuesday with the president of Google’s global affairs and Alphabet’s legal director, Kent Walker.
The Prime Minister’s program for this Tuesday ends with a meeting with Portuguese United Nations officials and members of the Portuguese community.
On Thursday, António Costa will deliver his third speech at the annual general debate between heads of state and government of the 193 UN members, in which he participated in 2017 and 2020, this second time not in person, but by videoconference, due to to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Prime Minister is in New York accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, João Gomes Cravinho, who has maintained an intense schedule of bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
Portugal, which launched the winning candidacy of António Guterres for the UN Secretary General in 2016, meanwhile re-elected in 2021 and with a mandate until the end of 2026, is a candidate for non-permanent member of the UN Security Council in the Biennium 2027 -2028 — process that was announced in 2013 by the then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Paulo Portas, and for which, last year, the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, requested the trust of the Member States of the United Nations .
Source: Observadora
