UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- This year's general debate of the UN General Assembly concluded on Monday, after representatives of 190 member states spoke around the theme of "A watershed moment: transformative solutions to interlocking challenges."
Csaba Korosi, president of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly, said in his closing remarks that 126 heads of state and government took part in this year's general debate.
"The sheer number of you who took part in this debate points to the importance that the general debate holds in international affairs," said Korosi.
Korosi said he got five messages from the member states during the general debate.
The first is the growing awareness that humanity has entered a new era, he said.
"Facing complex challenges and multi-layer crises, we reached a time of paradigm shift, because the movements, the adjustments that we see around us cannot be called mere modifications any longer: they are significant transformations in the making," he said.
"The basic conditions of our global cooperation have changed. We live now in a different world -- a world of new challenges, changing priorities, changing roles, and changing ways. Fresh pages of history are being written, with new divisions and new alliances, new grievances, and new successes on them," he said.
The second message is that the conflict in Ukraine should end; the third is that climate change is gradually destroying humanity; and the fourth is calls for improving the state of human rights and meeting the needs of those most vulnerable to exploitation.
The fifth key issue, for which there is strong support, is the need to modernize the United Nations, revitalize the General Assembly and reform the Security Council, said Korosi. ■
