Newsletter sign-up: Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox.

In speech after speech, the atmosphere was somber, angry and dire.Ĭhinese President Xi Jinping warned that 'the world has entered a period of new turbulence and transformation.' Finland President Sauli Niinisto said: 'We are indeed at a critical juncture.' And Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado Quesada declared: 'The future is raising its voice at us: Less military weaponry, more investment in peace!'

Said one country's president: 'The future is raising its voice at us.'įor the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began early last year, more than two dozen world leaders appeared in person at the UN General Assembly on the opening day of their annual high-level meeting Tuesday. Racism, climate change and worsening divisions among nations and cultures topped the agenda Wednesday as leaders from China to Costa Rica, from Finland to Turkey to the United Nations itself outlined reasons why the world isn't working as it should - and what must be done quickly to fix it.

Download delphi keygen to all versions