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The 81st United Nations General Assembly is underway in New York under the central theme of "Restoring Trust" in light of questions about the international body's effectiveness and lack of funding. Our colleage Jorge Gestoso is in the city and has all the details. teleSUR

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00:00As we were saying, the 81st United Nations General Assembly is currently underway in New York
00:04under the central theme of restoring trust in light of questions about the international body's
00:09effectiveness and a lack of funding.
00:12We go live with our colleague Jorge Gestoso, who is in the city, for all the details about these upcoming
00:18events.
00:20Luis Alberto, there's already an unmoved fear of really tension here in the United Nations and in New York City.
00:29Where a lot of the leaders of the 193 countries are going to be participating in this new General Assembly.
00:38We're talking about three main issues that are going to be the center of the debate, of the discussions that
00:45are going to be taking place.
00:46First of all, I would say that it's sovereignty versus interference.
00:52Another one, unilateralism versus multilateralism.
00:57And last but not least, I would say that is what has to be with climate change and artificial intelligence.
01:07The big issues are going to be discussed and are going to be presented through different positions of this General
01:15Assembly.
01:16A lot of leaders have already arrived.
01:18Some of them continue to arrive throughout the day.
01:21We're talking about that the president in charge, Delcy Rodriguez, arrived on Sunday, yesterday.
01:30And she's expected to participate in the General Assembly.
01:35It's going to be 20 years since she herself, in 2016.
01:42She was the one who was talking under the name of Venezuela.
01:46Two years later, it was President Nicolás Maduro.
01:50It means that 18 years ago was the same time that she was represented.
02:00So, basically, it's going to be very important.
02:02Her presence here is expected to have a meeting with President Donald Trump that we don't know more details than
02:12what we anticipate that is going to happen.
02:15And we're going to be sharing it with you throughout the day, according to the information that is going to
02:21be coming.
02:21But mostly, this is a very polarized, polarized world, and it's going to be reflected in basically what is going
02:33to be the speeches of the leaders.
02:34When all the time, when the session is going to start, because the United Nations was created in 1948, since
02:44the very first day,
02:45Brazil is going to be the country that opens the session.
02:50Lula is already here.
02:53President Trump is the one who followed.
02:55And also, that is a tradition, follow Brazil.
02:58It's the United States.
02:59So, tomorrow, we're anticipating that there are going to be very, very clear issues.
03:04Lula da Silva facing re-election in a few weeks.
03:09We're talking about October, the first week of October in Brazil.
03:12And President Trump also trying to use his influence to try to push into power Lula's rival, Jair Bolsonaro's son,
03:25Flavio Bolsonaro.
03:26So, all those issues are going to be taking place in the coming days throughout this week.
03:32And we're going to be, Luis Alberto, sharing it with you and the audience.
03:37We'll get back to you now.
03:39Thank you, Jorge, for the information as we are getting ready for this high-level debate at the United Nations.
03:44Of course, we're going to stay in touch in the upcoming days to follow up on the finalists happening and
03:48the address that the heads of states give.
03:50We're going to stay in touch.
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