WATCH: Dozens of Ukrainian FPV drones waiting near the front line in Donetsk, filmed by Russian drone operator.

UN Secretary-General Guterres:

I am proud to report today that the United Nations achieved gender parity for the first time in history across all senior leadership, all headquarters, and all professional staff.

UN Secretary-General Guterres:

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, five major Western oil companies have pocketed nearly half a trillion dollars in profits.

Compare that with just $34 billion in international public adaptation finance for developing countries in the latest year reported.

UN Secretary-General Guterres:

Violence, displacement and settlement expansion by Israel in the occupied West Bank are bulldozing the path to peace and raising the spectre of ethnic cleansing.

UN Secretary-General Guterres:

At a pivotal moment during the Cold War, strategic rivals came to recognize the need to manage shared existential risks. They built mechanisms to reduce misunderstandings, manage escalation, and prevent catastrophe.

At that time, it was nuclear armament.

Today, artificial intelligence demands the same clarity of purpose and sense of urgency.

UN Secretary-General Guterres:

Children must never become test subjects for unregulated systems.

And let us resolve that life-and-death decisions must never be surrendered to machines.

Killer robots must have no place in our future.

Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon:

I would advise Mayor Mamdani to focus on the problems of the city of New York and stop promoting anti-Semitism, stop supporting Hamas, and stop engaging with the Iranian regime.

Trump to CNN while entering UNGA:

I’m surprised CNN is here covering me. You shouldn’t be here.

You said you weren’t going to cover me. You shouldn’t be covering me.

Reporter: What’s your message to Putin?

Trump: Settle the war.

Q: Do you have an evacuation backpack?

Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski: I have supplies of rice, I have a hand pump at home, I have preserves made from Polish produce from my own garden.

I have safety instructions, and I have also thought about where the shelter is located.

Everyone should also know how to put on a bandage. That is useful even in times of peace.

Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski:

Members of the permanent Security Council have a duty to protect world peace.

And here, a member of the Security Council — Russia — attacked a neighboring country.

So, if international law is to mean anything, the United States has a duty to stand with the victim of aggression.

Escalator at the UN caused no problems for Trump and Melania this time.

Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski:

Only one person knows how close we are today to a real armed conflict between Russia and one of the NATO countries.

It is Putin, because NATO is a purely defensive alliance.

We must be ready for deterrence if Putin does what he previously did in Georgia and now in Ukraine.

Brazilian President Lula:

The UN is failing in one of its most important missions: to rid humanity of the scourge of war.

Its credibility has never been lower. Its ability to protect the most vulnerable has never been so weak.

Brazilian President Lula:

War is not the continuation of politics by other means; it’s the complete breakdown of politics.

Brazilian President Lula:

Generations of Palestinians will carry the pain and trauma caused by the genocide carried out by the Netanyahu government.

Brazilian President Lula:

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese must not be silenced for telling the truth.

Illegal settlements in the West Bank are making the two-state solution increasingly unviable.

Brazilian President Lula:

The Venezuelan people deserve to decide their own destiny.

Brazilian President Lula on Cuba:

In Cuba, the world watches in horror as collective punishment is imposed on 10 million people by an illegal economic and energy embargo.

Brazilian President Lula on organized crime:

We do not need aircraft carriers guarding our waters.

We need cooperation to block the flow of weapons and money that feeds organized crime.

That’s the spirit of the proposal that I personally handed to the U.S. president.