The event will be marked by a number of key absences, with many leaders from the Global North not expected to attend.
for the first time in a number of years US Joe Biden is expected to be the only leader from the top-five powerful veto-wielding nations on the UN Security Council to attend in person.complaints that their voice and demands will not be heard by developed nations.
“So I'm not so worried about who’s coming. What I’m worried [about] is making sure the countries that are here … are ready to assume the commitments necessary to make the Sustainable Development Goals that unfortunately are not moving in the right direction a reality,” he said. “I think the parties are far from that possibility at the present moment, but we will never, never stop our efforts to make sure that peace comes to Ukraine,” he said.
Guterres will deliver his state-of-the-world address of Tuesdays General is expected to tell leaders it is not the time for “indifference or indecision" amid his push for"real, practical solutions"
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