Welcome to the United Nations
The General Assembly of the United Nations opens its seventieth session on Tuesday, 15 September, at 3 p.m., at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
The opening of the session will be followed, in the second week, by the United Nations summit to adopt the post-2015 development agenda—a high-level plenary meeting taking place from Friday, 25 September, through Sunday, 27 September 2015—when world leaders are expected to agree to a new set of sustainability measures that build on the successes of, and lessons learned from, the landmark Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) (http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/) — United Nations anti-poverty targets that are due to wrap up at the end of 2015. (For further information, go to https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/ summit.)
The Assembly’s annual general debate, when Heads of State and Government and other senior national representatives gather to present their views about pressing world issues, will open on Monday, 28 September, and run through Monday, 5 October.
For updates and further information, please visit the General Assembly website: www.un.org/en/ga.
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