(Source: United Nations General Assembly) Secretary-General, Other World Leaders Sound Alarm over Deepening Rifts among Peoples, Urging Greater Solidarity, Partnership Beginning its work against the backdrop of an expanding global refugee crisis, deepening political divisions and a spate of terror attacks across the globe, the General Assembly's seventy-first session convened a record number of topical meetings, while also embarking on the daily business of implementing the newly adopted 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, kicking off the final general debate of his decade-long tenure on 20 September, warned against deepening rifts between 'us' and 'them'...
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