Cameroon’s former prime minister has taken over the presidency of the U.N. General Assembly and called for nations to unite and to address global challenges from climate change and poverty to conflicts and armed violence.
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Philemon Yang told the 193-member world body there are doubts that nations can join forces to tackle these and other pressing issues. But he said: “We must demonstrate that international cooperation remains the most effective tool at our disposal for addressing the profound and borderless issues we confront.
But Francis also warned that millions of people live in abject poverty and hopelessness today, and “On our current trajectory, millions more will face poverty and hunger by 2030.”He said the 78th session of the General Assembly, which ended Tuesday morning, was “a tumultuous year” of continued poverty, inequality, injustice, division, violence and conflict — and it was also the hottest year on record.
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