Licence to kill


Nearing a solution? The July conference on the Two-State Solution that led to the New York Declaration, a road-map for the solution’s implementation. — MANUEL ELIAS/UN Photo

IT is that time of the year again for diplomacy in New York City. The United Nations General Assembly (Unga), one of the world’s key diplomatic events where leaders address global issues, began its 80th session earlier this month.

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres warned that global divisions, conflicts, and crises have taken the very principle of international cooperation to its most fragile inflection point in decades.

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