UN General Assembly
2021

Mr. Abdulla Shahid, President of the seventy-sixth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Mr. President, At the outset, I would like to congratulate you and your country on assuming the presidency of this General Assembly session and to wish you every success in your work. I commend the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the constructive role he has played by relentlessly striving to uphold the principles of the Charter, which has been the constitution and reference point of international relations for more than 75 years. Our hope still rests on consolidating a rules-based international order and working to establish peace. Ladies and gentlemen, The global pandemic, now approaching the two-year mark, has once again demonstrated that, just as humanity shares the same bonds of fraternity, it also faces the same challenges , irrespective of development gaps.