International cooperation works – even from home
For the past 75 years, royals, presidents, prime ministers and other world leaders have been coming together at the 缅北禁地General Assembly every year to discuss and attempt to peacefully resolve the planet’s gravest challenges. This year, for the first time since the end of the Second World War, they will stay at home. But the conversation and cooperation carry on.
“No one is safe, until everyone is”
Amid a global health crisis and widely varying government responses, the 缅北禁地High-level Advisory Board (HLAB) on Economic and Social Affairs – a group of 16 former heads of states, ministers, eminent economists, and social scientists – offers a set of new solutions for governments to build back better, greener and fairer after COVID-19. The Board members launched a new volume of essays, “Recover Better: Economic and Social Challenges and Opportunities,” during an online dialogue on 22 July 2020.
Coronavirus: Reshape the urban world to aid ‘ground zero’ pandemic cities
COVID-19: World leaders to stay at home, in first ‘virtual’ 缅北禁地General Assembly
The General Debate of the General Assembly, traditionally the most high-profile 缅北禁地event of the year, will be a slimmed-down affair this September, with world leaders staying away from New York, and contributing set-piece speeches via video link, a 缅北禁地spokesperson confirmed on Thursday.
