Rituals of the United Nations

The United Nations General Assembly is set to take place, with various world leaders and officials in attendance. According to CityNews, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will attend the event, but will not give a speech. Instead, he will participate in a roundtable discussion on strengthening multilateral collaboration and co-host an event on the two-state solution with France and the United Kingdom.

The US has approved visas for a small number of Iranian officials to attend the General Assembly, as reported by Middle East Eye. This comes as the US and Iran remain in a state of conflict. The US State Department has indicated that it will continue to ban certain Iranian officials from entering the country.

The UN Security Council has met to discuss the leadership of the organization, ahead of the General Assembly. According to Punch Nigeria, Nigeria's participation in the UN General Assembly has been critiqued, with leaders like Tinubu and Buhari being accused of failing to meet development goals like the SDGs. RTE News reports that the Security Council met to gauge the popularity of contenders to lead the UN.

Brief written by urgent.news from Punch Nigeria, CityNews, RTE News, Middle East Eye — 4 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.