General Debate of the 78th Session of the General Assembly

The debate of the 78th session is now closed. Links to video on-demand and statements are available below.

Previously

President of the General Assembly (closing)

His Excellency Dennis Francis
President of the General Assembly

Morocco

His Excellency Omar Hilale
Chair of the Delegation

Vanuatu

His Excellency Odo Tevi
Chair of the Delegation

Canada

His Excellency Robert Rae
Chair of the Delegation

San Marino

His Excellency Damiano Beleffi
Chair of the Delegation

Benin

His Excellency Marc Hermanne Gninadoou Araba
Chair of the Delegation

Daily schedule

1. Secretary-General of the United NationsHis Excellency António Guterres
Secretary-General

2. President of the General Assembly (opening)His Excellency Dennis Francis
President of the General Assembly

3. BrazilHis Excellency Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
President

4. United States of AmericaHis Excellency Joseph R. Biden
President

5. ColombiaHis Excellency Gustavo Petro Urrego
President

6. JordanHis Majesty Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein
King

7. PolandHis Excellency Andrzej Duda
President

8. CubaHis Excellency Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez
President

9. TürkiyeHis Excellency Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
President

10. PortugalHis Excellency Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
President

11. QatarHis Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani
Amir

12. South AfricaHis Excellency Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa
President

13. TurkmenistanHis Excellency Serdar Berdimuhamedov
President

14. UkraineHis Excellency Volodymyr Zelenskyy
President

15. GuatemalaHis Excellency Alejandro Giammattei Falla
President

16. HungaryHer Excellency Katalin Novák
President

17. SwitzerlandHis Excellency Alain Berset
President

18. SloveniaHer Excellency Nataša Pirc Musar
President

19. UzbekistanHis Excellency Shavkat Mirziyoyev
President

1. Bolivia (Plurinational State of)His Excellency Luis Alberto Arce Catacora
Constitutional President

2. KazakhstanHis Excellency Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
President

3. Iran (Islamic Republic of)His Excellency Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi
President

4. AlgeriaHis Excellency Abdelmadjid Tebboune
President

5. ArgentinaHis Excellency Alberto Fernández
President

6. El SalvadorHis Excellency Nayib Armando Bukele
President

7. KyrgyzstanHis Excellency Sadyr Zhaparov
President

8. ParaguayHis Excellency Santiago Peña Palacios
President

9. PeruHer Excellency Dina Ercilia Boluarte Zegarra
President

10. MozambiqueHis Excellency Filipe Jacinto Nyusi
President

11. PanamaHis Excellency Laurentino Cortizo Cohen
President

12. NigeriaHis Excellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu
President

13. UruguayHis Excellency Luis Lacalle Pou
President

14. Czech RepublicHis Excellency Petr Pavel
President

15. PalauHis Excellency Surangel Whipps
President

16. SenegalHis Excellency Macky Sall
President

17. GermanyHis Excellency Olaf Scholz
Chancellor

18. JapanHis Excellency Kishida Fumio
Prime Minister

The women and men of the United Nations are determined in our efforts to address today’s cascading crises and set humanity on a new path to peace, stability and prosperity.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres

Behind the scene: the interpreters

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Behind the scene: Department of Safety and Security

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Behind the scene: Protocol and Liaison Service

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Secretary-General António Guterres (right) meets with Dennis Francis, President of the78th session of the United Nations General Assembly. UN Photo / Eskinder Debebe

About the General Debate

What is the General Debate?

The General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly is the opportunity for Heads of State and Government to come together at the UN Headquarters and discuss world issues.

On this site, you will find a daily list of speakers, with links to individual pages for each speaker. These pages will be published as soon possible and will present information pertaining to the speaker: an on-demand video, the statement (.pdf) and a summary of the statement, a downloadable photo, and audio files (.mp3).