Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are absent from the General Assembly this year. Amid many divisions in the world due to the consequences of

war in Ukraine, climate disasters and global food insecurity, The United Nations General Assembly will hold its annual meeting for the 77th Session for the first time in two years, after it was conducted online in the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Over a week, some 150 heads of State or Government from around the world are scheduled to deliver speeches during this annual meeting. The opening address of this session will be delivered by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres

Traditionally, speaking on the first day of the meeting since his country is host to United Nations Headquarters, but exceptionally, as on very rare occasions in the past, President Joe Biden, who attended Queen Elizabeth II's funeral Monday in London, will not deliver his speech Tuesday and postponed it to Wednesday.

For his part, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will deliver the opening speech of the seventy-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly, which "will not soften things", according to his spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric.

"We meet at a moment of great danger for the world," Guterres said Monday, speaking of "climate conflicts and disasters", "suspicion and division" and "poverty, inequality and discrimination."

With a videoconference intervention by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after obtaining special permission voted on by Member States last week, Russia's invasion of Ukraine will be at the heart of this high-level diplomatic week, as well as at a meeting of the Security Council at the level of foreign ministers Thursday.

However, the States of the South increasingly object to the Western States' focus on Ukraine.

On the introductory day devoted to education and growth goals, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Motley said Monday, "We don't just want to talk about putting an end to the conflict in Ukraine. We want conflicts to end in Tigray, we want conflicts to end in Syria, we want conflicts to end where they are in the world. "

In an effort to respond to some countries' fears, Americans and Europeans are organizing a high-level meeting Tuesday on food insecurity, one of the repercussions of this war in mankind.

Tuesday's presidents are set to meet Macron, who in recent months urged him to accept the conditions put forward by Europeans to revive the 2015 nuclear deal that should ensure Tehran does not possess the atomic bomb in exchange for lifting sanctions that stifle its economy.

These tensions arising from the war in Ukraine add to the feeling of resentment on the part of the Nordic States in combating climate change.

Two months before the UN climate conference Cop27 COP27 in Egypt, it would be surprising if Guterres did not devote much of his speech to the climate crisis, which made mitigating greenhouse gas emissions one of his priorities.