UN General Assembly
2022

Before us is a critical, crucial theme “A watershed moment: transformative solutions to interlocking challenges”. Our shared planet and our people face complex and multifaceted challenges, and we must act now. We have the responsibility and the duty to find common ground. Together, we must deliver the transformative solutions needed to build peaceful, inclusive, healthy and resilient societies — societies looking with hope to their futures because they can live in a planet we sustain in peace and health for current and future generations to come. The President’s theme — our theme — is a timely and relevant theme to guide our work during this session. The global challenges are vast; they are many; they are interlinked. They all are ultimately about maintaining international peace and security. With urgency we must, among so many other issues, overcome the severe economic, financial and social impacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) global pandemic, and accelerate action on climate change, ocean health, energy transformation, the sustainable use of natural resources, cybersecurity — and I could go on.