Tasks daunting as UN Assembly opens

By Edith M Lederer
Updated September 22 2021 - 7:25am, first published 7:21am
The 76th Session of the General Assembly of The United Nations has opened in New York.
The 76th Session of the General Assembly of The United Nations has opened in New York.

In person and on screen, world leaders have returned to the United Nations' foremost gathering for the first time in the pandemic era with a formidable, diplomacy-packed agenda and a sharply worded warning from the international organisation's leader: "We face the greatest cascade of crises in our lifetime."

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