Statement delivered by European Commission Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva on 14 March 2015, at the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction held in Sendai, Japan. It so happened that a major natural disaster was taking place at the same time as the Conference, with the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu devastated by Cyclone…
This is what she said: Mr President, It is an honour for me to address the Security Council in my first months as High Representative of the European Union. I would like to thank the French presidency of the Council for this opportunity to discuss our partnership. And I would like to thank you, Mr…
In the second half of September, each and every year, world leaders gather in New York for the annual high-level meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations. It is like the annual town hall meeting of the planet, an opportunity for presidents, kings and prime ministers, to make public statements on the big issues facing their countries and our world as a whole, and to discuss privately possible solutions to the thorniest among those issues.
