AP: The United Nations chief is going globetrotting to four major meetings before the biggest meeting of all – the annual gathering of world leaders at the UN General Assembly starting 18 Sept.
Secretary-General António Guterres heads first to Nairobi on Saturday for the Africa Climate Summit on 4-5 Sept, then to Jakarta for a UN summit with the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations known as ASEAN on 6-7 Sept.
From there, he flies to New Delhi for the G20 summit of the world’s 20 major economies on 8-10 Sept and then briefly returns to New York before heading to Havana for the summit of the G77 — a coalition of some 134 developing countries and China — on 14-15 Sept. He will arrive back in New York just before the General Assembly’s high-level week begins, where the war in Ukraine is expected to dominate the annual meeting for a second year.
A very high number of heads of state and government — nearly 150 — are scheduled to attend this year’s gathering of world leaders.
Albania’s UN Ambassador Ferit Hoxha, this month’s president of the UN Security Council, told reporters Friday he could “almost confirm” that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will attend the global gathering in person for the first time, and speak at a council meeting on Sept.