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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Portuguese health minister on Friday said that the ongoing United Nations General Assembly in New York is “very important” to rebuild solidarity between countries.
The high-level week of the 78th annual UNGA commenced on Tuesday and will continue through this week. Hundreds of world leaders and delegates have gathered in New York to attend the event, with around 150 heads of states and governments set to deliver speeches.
“I think this is a huge meeting in a very important context because after the pandemic we really need to rebuild solidarity in the… world,” Manuel Pizarro, Portugal’s health minister, told Rudaw’s Sinan Tuncdemir on the sidelines of the UNGA.
The theme of this year’s summit is “Rebuilding trust and reigniting global solidarity: Accelerating action on the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals towards peace, prosperity, progress and sustainability for all.”
“I am completely sure that we are much more prepared than we were in 2020,” said the minister, referring to the time when coronavirus spread around the world. “But of course there is always a lot more to do and we must remember that the situations are different from country to country and are also different inside each country.”
He said there should be equity in the world.
“We solve issues together but the idea of togetherness is something very important for the future and I think we must stay together to find solutions that could help everybody in the world,” noted the minister.
The high-level week of the 78th annual UNGA commenced on Tuesday and will continue through this week. Hundreds of world leaders and delegates have gathered in New York to attend the event, with around 150 heads of states and governments set to deliver speeches.
“I think this is a huge meeting in a very important context because after the pandemic we really need to rebuild solidarity in the… world,” Manuel Pizarro, Portugal’s health minister, told Rudaw’s Sinan Tuncdemir on the sidelines of the UNGA.
The theme of this year’s summit is “Rebuilding trust and reigniting global solidarity: Accelerating action on the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals towards peace, prosperity, progress and sustainability for all.”
“I am completely sure that we are much more prepared than we were in 2020,” said the minister, referring to the time when coronavirus spread around the world. “But of course there is always a lot more to do and we must remember that the situations are different from country to country and are also different inside each country.”
He said there should be equity in the world.
“We solve issues together but the idea of togetherness is something very important for the future and I think we must stay together to find solutions that could help everybody in the world,” noted the minister.
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