On September 24 local time, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA, the opening ceremony of the High-level General Debate of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly took place with the theme "Leaving no one behind: Acting in solidarity to promote peace, sustainable development, and human dignity for present and future generations".
General Secretary and President To Lam attended the opening ceremony and spoke at the general discussion session.
According to VNA, General Secretary and President To Lam delivered a speech with a strong and comprehensive message on "Strengthening multilateralism, acting together to create a peaceful, stable, prosperous and sustainable future for all people".
The General Secretary and President called on countries to strengthen solidarity, join hands, act together, cooperate closely, and promote the role of global institutions, especially the United Nations and regional organizations, including ASEAN, to achieve the highest goal of ending war, eliminating all forms of oppression and exploitation, creating peace, building a better world and bringing happiness to humanity.
Sharing Vietnam's vision for the future, the General Secretary and President emphasized that peace and stability are the foundation for building a prosperous future and that countries, especially major countries, need to comply with international law and the United Nations Charter, act responsibly, abide by commitments, contribute to common work, strengthen solidarity, sincerity, trust, promote dialogue, and eliminate confrontation.
The General Secretary and President said that it is necessary to unblock, mobilize and effectively use all resources for development, giving priority to "lowland areas" in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), supporting developing countries with preferential capital, transferring advanced technology, training high-quality human resources, facilitating investment and trade and reducing debt burden.
Calling for the early establishment of smart global governance frameworks, the General Secretary and President emphasized the need for a long-term vision on science and technology, especially emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, to promote progressive development while proactively preventing and repelling dangers to peace, sustainable development and humanity.
The General Secretary and President said that there is a need for new thinking and efforts to promote transformation, focusing on digital transformation, green transformation and global governance transformation, thereby helping countries increase their resilience and self-reliance. Reforming multilateral mechanisms must better ensure representation, fairness, transparency, efficiency and readiness for the future.
At the same time, it is necessary to put people at the center, in which special attention must be paid to investing in and comprehensively developing the young generation in both knowledge and culture, on the basis of common values and a sense of responsibility and dedication.
