Between UNGA Week events, the Social Good Summit and the Clinton Global Initiative we figured that we would have critical mass who would want to get together for some drinks and good discussion.
As per tradition Brazil will kick off the events tomorrow with a speech from President Dilma Rousseff. Then, President Obama (in his role as the head of state of the host country) will take to the podium. Other notable speakers tomorrow include French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
UN Week is here. Soon, world leaders will descend on Turtle Bay for the annual ritual of speeches, press conferences and back-room wheeling and dealing. Here are the top five stories on the agenda this week in New York. They are ordered not in terms of importance, but in descending order of likely media interest.
Right now, it’s a very bad time to be in Sindh, Pakistan’s southern province. It was hit by devastating floods last year. They’re still rebuilding, and it is already monsoon season again, with new floods coming.
