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YI was elected in June, 2019, and the first issue was the formation of a cabinet. It is the very first element and a challenge because we have to get people from all parts of the world in the cabinet. We got that sorted out with the support of colleagues.

The challenge of course is that you preside over a meeting and the setting is not easy because of imagined differences between countries and regions. Your task is to narrow the differences and achieve consensus as much as possible on matters that are important. That has been the challenge; but not a unique one, because every assembly will have challenges and every general assembly will face issues of its time.

Today, there are issues that we thought we had overcome, but that are still with us. Therefore, negotiations between countries on resolutions are a bit more difficult, and while these are going on, global challenges are increasing. Terrorism has ravaged societies and communities, climate change is an existential threat to us, and in some regions, it has become one of the major drivers of conflict or even terror. So, this is one challenge.

Of course, we are not also as an assembly unmindful of matters that do with nuclear weapons. Some of the agreements are being questioned. These agreements are important to our world. Therefore, we are working for people to stay on the non-proliferation treaty and lessen the rush to modernise weapons, and instead of that, to give space and resources for development.

There are also issues concerning human rights in terms of increase in hate speeches and in planting stories that incite people to violence. There is a rise in some countries of nationalism of the type that can create problems among people and countries. So these are the challenges globally that affect the work of representatives of countries in the UN, especially in the general assembly.

Speaking of the nuclear treaty, Iran has become a huge question mark for reneging on the nuclear treaty it signed. How do you think this issue can be resolved?

The issue is not about Iran, the issue is about the tendency to continue to modernise weapons. The issue is a deepening mistrust between Iran and some countries and the implications for the region and the world. I think the UN Security Council has met to work on that issue, but it also has to be done in the context of broader understanding in respect to the necessity of creating a world in which nuclear weapons of all kinds are banned. It is a tall order, but it is an agreement to have a world without nuclear weapons as a guarantor of peace because of the consequences of nuclear detonation; whether deliberate or accidental.

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