General Assembly: 19th plenary meeting, 80th session

Global solidarity, renewed investment, level financial playing field key to unlocking Africa’s vast potential, speakers tell General Assembly.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / General Assembly
• Video Length: 01:44:19
• Production Date: 16 October 2025
• Asset Language: Arabic; English; French; Russian; Spanish; Chinese; Original
• Corporate Name: SECURITY COUNCIL; AFRICAN UNION - AU
• Subject Topical: DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; MEMBERSHIP; NATURAL RESOURCES; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS; FOREIGN INVESTMENTS; COLONIALISM; MULTILATERALISM; REGIONAL COOPERATION
• Geographic Subject: AFRICA
• MAMS Id: 3473465
• Parent Id: 3471503
• Alternate Title: MTG GA 80 SESSION 19 PLENARY 16 OCT 2025 AM

Description

With the world’s youngest population, abundant natural resources and infinite opportunities for growth, unlocking Africa’s potential requires global solidarity, renewed investments and a level financial playing field, the General Assembly heard today, as it met to discuss the New Partnership for Africa’s Development.

Taking up its annual discussion of the framework first agreed by the United Nations in 2001, the 193-member Assembly considered both opportunities and challenges facing the African continent.  Many speakers hailed its vast economic potential, while spotlighting conflicts, weak governance, high debt ratios and the worsening impacts of climate change as challenges that must be overcome with stronger support from the international community.

From the New Partnership for Africa’s Development to Agenda 2063: progress in the implementation of sustainable development in Africa and international support - Item 65

• From the New Partnership for Africa’s Development to Agenda 2063: progress in the implementation of sustainable development in Africa and international support - Item 65 (a)
• Report of the Secretary-General (A/80/185)
• Causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa - Item 65 (b)

Reports of the Secretary-General (A/80/179, A/80/291)

• Debate on the item as a whole

Speakers:

• Guinea-Bissau (on behalf of the African Group)
• Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (on behalf of the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the UN)
• European Union (on behalf of the EU and its member States)
• Thailand
• Spain
• Portugal
• Zimbabwe
• Romania
• Kyrgyzstan
• Algeria
• Namibia
• Germany
• Russian Federation
• Ethiopia
• Angola
• Maldives
• Kuwait

Related Sites and Documents

UN Meetings Coverage

A/80/185

A/80/179-S/2025/468

A/80/291