New York - The UN General Assembly prepared Monday to open its 63rd annual session, confronted with a host of challenges topped by the resilient issues of fighting poverty and hunger, disease and climate change.
The 192-nation body was to begin the new session on Tuesday under the presidency of Father Miguel d'Escoto Brockman, a Roman Catholic priest from Nicaragua, the first time a clergyman will take the reins of the body dominated by non-aligned, Arab and Islamic countries.