★ UN General Assembly High-Level Week

01重要な理由

No other week concentrates this many governments in one city, and the consequence is that a great deal of business with nothing to do with the United Nations is scheduled to catch people who are already there.

02前後の週

Midtown East becomes difficult and stays that way. The police impose frozen zones around the headquarters and the delegation hotels, First and Second Avenues and stretches of the FDR Drive close repeatedly for motorcades, and crossing the East Fifties on foot is often faster than any vehicle.

03到着時期

Arrive Sunday and be in place before Monday morning, when the first summits convene and the road closures begin.

04宿泊先

Delegations take the Midtown East hotels around the United Nations and along Park and Lexington; those blocks are inside the security perimeter, which means secure but slow.

05アクセスとホスピタリティ

The General Assembly Hall is closed to the public during high-level week; access is limited to accredited delegations, mission personnel, accredited non-governmental organisations and credentialed press, and headquarters tours are suspended. The general debate is broadcast free on UN Web TV and archived.

06社交活動の場

The visible week happens in Midtown hotel ballrooms, in the Ford Foundation and Asia Society auditoriums, in university halls at NYU and Columbia, and in the lobbies of the hotels where delegations are billeted.

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08実用情報

09沿革

The General Assembly first met in London in January 1946 and moved to New York the following year, settling into the Turtle Bay headquarters when it opened in 1952. The surrounding week grew from the 1990s as the Assembly began scheduling summits alongside the debate, and accelerated after the 2015 adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement.

10参加者

Heads of state and government and their delegations; foreign ministers and permanent representatives; UN agency and multilateral bank leadership; foundation and non-governmental organisation heads; development-finance and impact investors; corporate sustainability teams; climate scientists and campaigners; and several thousand accredited journalists.