UN General Assembly
2022

It is a great honour and privilege to address the General Assembly at its seventy-seventh session here in New York today. At this particularly challenging time in human history, I welcome the important theme of this session, which directs us all to jointly find transformative solutions to the various interlocking challenges that we face today. There is absolutely no doubt that we, as a community of nations, now collectively face the most challenging socioeconomic and environmental situation we have experienced in modern history. In fact, I can say with sadness that the situation is dire and potentially existential. Therefore, without transformative and urgent implementable solutions to those interlocking challenges of our time, the small window of opportunity we have to act together will pass, to the detriment of all our citizens and to the world. Our actions today will surely determine our fate and that of the generations to come. The burden on all of our shoulders is heavy and failure is not an option.