New York, Sept. 23, 2025
A speech by U.S. President Donald Trump will kick off the 80th session of the annual General Debate of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York today, Tuesday, September 23, 2025.
Other speakers on the agenda on the first day are Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and French President Emmanuel Macron.
The speeches are scheduled to start at 9 am (1300 GMT).
UN Secretary General António Guterres and General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock are also to speak.
A session of the UN Security Council on the Ukraine war, which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to attend, is also scheduled.
Around 150 heads of state and government are set to speak over the week ahead, with the Middle East conflict and the war in Ukraine as major issues.
The UN’s precarious finances would not be left out, along with the changing geopolitical role of the United States under Trump.
Nigeria’s Vice-President, Sen. Kashim Shettima, who is leading the country’s high-powered delegation to the annual global event, has since arrived New York.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Shettima is representing President Bola Tinubu at the UN epochal event.
