General Assembly Closes 79th Session

Secretary-General António Guterres (at podium and on screens) delivers closing remarks during the last plenary meeting of the seventy-ninth session of the General Assembly.

"His Excellency Philemon Yang […] presided over the General Assembly with wisdom, vision and skill, while working to forge multilateral solutions and providing a powerful voice for Africa," said the Secretary-General and continued: "The founders of this organization in 1945 recognized a fundamental fact. The strength of the United Nations depended on the commitment of countries to look beyond solely national interests — and to consider instead what we could achieve by standing as one. This truth is just as important today as it was eighty years ago. And just as effective."