Friday, UNGA 80, General Assembly
United Nations, NY (September 26, 2025) — The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA80), which featured the continuation of the General Debate with world leaders giving speeches. Key events included a high-level meeting to promote the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons and the AUDACITY UNGA 100 Disruptors Summit. The overall session theme for this 80th anniversary is “Better together”.
This year, Palestinian representatives were again denied a visa by the US, so they will participate virtually.
The Trump administration’s decision has drawn widespread criticism, with the UN asserting that it violates the Host Country Agreement, which obligates the US to allow heads of state and government to travel to New York for annual meetings and other diplomatic business, with full diplomatic immunity.
The UN Secretary-General had previously called for such high-level attention to nuclear disarmament in his Five-Point Proposal for Nuclear Disarmament, as had Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament in a statement released at their 2013 assembly in Washington D.C. (See Parliamentarians call on Nuclear Security Summit process for nuclear abolition).
The Non-Aligned Movement also called for the urgent commencement of negotiations for a comprehensive convention on nuclear weapons to prohibit their possession, development, production, acquisition, testing, stockpiling, transfer, use or threat of use, and to provide for their destruction.
September 26 was also commemorated by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL), which released a statement on nuclear disarmament at the United Nations in Geneva (See Sep 26 UN Commemoration event).
