General Assembly Holds Special Session in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

The General Assembly holds a Special Session in Response to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic is not only the greatest global health crisis since the creation of the United Nations 75 years ago. It is also a humanitarian, socio-economic, security and human rights crisis. The special session provides an opportunity for the international community to assess and hone its collective response to this pandemic.
Munir Akram (at podium), seventy-sixth President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations, makes an opening statement during the meeting.
Behind him at dais are Volkan Bozkir (left), President of the seventy-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly, and Secretary-General António Guterres.