Security Council, climate summit and what else is happening at the United Nations

It is the second day of the high-level assembly of the Normal Meeting of the United Nations that brings together world leaders at the UN headquarters in New York. Below are highlights of what happened at the UN on Tuesday and what will need to be regulated on Wednesday. Follow our live updates to follow developments throughout the week.
WHAT HAPPENED AT THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY TUESDAY
— Motorcades and barricades choked downtown Manhattan as the world’s top dignitaries gathered for the first day of the annual U.N. regular meeting, which began with a stern speech from Secretary General of the UN, António Guterres.
– The first day saw speeches from high-level leaders including US President Joe Biden, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
— Although the speeches appear to have been in the works for some time, Tuesday’s speeches nevertheless referenced very current events – from last week’s floods in Libya to the resumption of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh.
— Depends on speeches: 37, as well as the opening speeches of the Secretary General and the President of the Normal Assembly
WHAT TO EXPECT AT THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON DAY 2
— Key speeches: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová, Mongolian President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa, Marshall Islands President David Kabua
— The UN Security Council will even meet. On the program: “maintaining peace and security in Ukraine”. The president of that country, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is expected to attend.
— Also underway: the United Nations Climate Ambition Summit, where only leaders of countries with ideas for a new and meaningful movement will be allowed to speak.
— On the sidelines, US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will finally meet for the first time since Israel’s leader took office. They are meeting in New York, and a large anti-Netanyahu demonstration is expected at the same time.
— Many speeches have directly addressed several global crises, but no single issue has yet dominated the discourse. Will this change on Wednesday?
QUOTABLE
“I want them to live in a time when human beings knew how to stop committing suicide on the planet and managed, knowing their own cultural diversity, to cope with the spread of the virus of life by world celebrities. ‘universe.”
— Colombian President Gustavo Petro, speaking about his grandchildren in a conversation full of literary flourishes.
ISSUE OF THE DAY
3: The number of women who spoke from the podium on Tuesday.
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