The two-day special session by the United Nations General Assembly is been organized on December 3 and 4. The special session will allow many stakeholders to share their experiences in fighting back with the pandemic, reflect on the global response to date, and forge a united, coordinated, and people-centered path forward.
The pandemic, which has claimed more than 1.3 million lives and infected more than 54 million people globally. The world body on which said, "is not only the greatest global health crisis since the creation of the United Nations 75 years ago, it is also a humanitarian, socio-economic, security and human rights crisis." The first day of the session will feature statements by the President of the General Assembly Volkan Bozkir, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, President of the Security Council for the month of December South African Ambassador Jerry Matthews Matjila, and Chair of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries Ilham Heydar oglu Aliyev. The General Assembly will then hear from world leaders. According to the speaker's list, there are 141 speakers inscribed, including 53 heads of state, 39 heads of government, four deputy prime ministers, and 38 ministers.
The second day will feature speeches from WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and other UN and inter-governmental agencies. Bozkir's Spokesperson Brenden Varma, replying to a question on whether it was far too late to hold the special session on COVID-19, said the President of the General Assembly. The President also said that it's already too late to have this meeting, which should have been held in the summer as the coronavirus cases were rapidly increasing across the world. Varma said member states have come together and decided to hold this special session on COVID-19. "And the point of this is to recommit to multilateralism," he added.
He also said that the main point of this session is to bring countries together, along with UN actors, the private sector, and vaccine developers to work together to see where we are, to take stock, and to identify gaps and challenges, and then to move forward together so we have a unified response that actually makes sense and that can actually combat this pandemic.
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