General Assembly: General Debate (20 - 26 September 2016).
Thursday, 22 September 2016
08:00 am
A new agenda for Women, Peace and Security and Mediation.
Migration and Health.
08:30 am
Beyond the World Humanitarian Summit: Advancing the Agenda for Humanity.
09:30 am
Achieving Peaceful, Just and inclusive Societies for Sustainable Development: Converting words into actions.
09:45 am
Security Council Media Stakeout.
11:00 am
High-Level Event on South Sudan.
Press Conference: His Excellency Mr. Evo Morales, President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia.
12:00 pm
Tunisia: Reforms and Investment Opportunities.
Daily Press Briefing (Guests: His Excellency Mr. Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera, President of the Republic of Costa Rica, and Executive Director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka)
01:15 pm
Call to Action on Protection from Gender-based Violence in Emergencies: turning WHS commitments into action.
Pathways to Zero Hunger.
Preventing and ending atrocity crimes: a key challenge for the UN Security Council.
South Africa's High-level side event: Measuring and Tackling Poverty in All its Dimensions.
Pathways to Zero Hunger.
Friends of the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs): Supporting Member States to achieve the NCD related Sustainable Development Goals targets”.
“Protecting Cultural Heritage – an Imperative for Humanity”: Acting together against the destruction and trafficking of cultural property by terrorist groups and organized crime.
03:00 pm
High Level Event Adaptation for the Countries of the South.
States of Fragility 2016: A Violent World - An OECD Flagship Report.
General Assembly: High-level segment to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development.
03:30 pm
Press Conference: His Excellency Mr. Peter Szijjártó, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Hungary.
04:00 pm
Joint Press Conference: The Minister for the Environment of the Kingdom of Morocco, the Minister for the Environment of the Republic of Rwanda and the Minister for the Environment of Norway on the Paris Agreements and the Montreal Protocol
04:30 pm
10 by 20 Innitiative on Marine Protected Areas. Achieviong the promise to protect the oceans and seas.
06:00 pm
Press Conference: The Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic on behalf of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).
General Assembly: General Debate (20 - 26 September 2016)
The theme of the general debate of the 71st session is “The Sustainable Development Goals: a universal push to transform our world."