At UN, West African leaders cite terrorism as singular challenge to global peace and development

President José Mário Vaz of Guinea-Bissau addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-first session. UN Photo/Amanda Voisard

21 September 2016 – Underlining the importance of and complementarity between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on financing for development, the President of Guinea-Bissau called on world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly to honour the commitments they made in the two global agreements.

“My country is strongly committed to do our part in implementing [them],” said President José Mário Vaz in his address to the Assembly’s annual general debate...Read More