Since this Wednesday, Slovak Chancellor Miroslav Lajcak is the new President of the United Nations General Assembly for its seventy-two session.

Lajcak will replace Fijian Peter Thomson in office from September 12, when the new session is to be installed, and a week later, the general debate of the Assembly begins, with the presence of more than a hundred heads of State or Government.

According to the geographical rotation applied to the presidency of the main deliberative body of the UN, it is now the turn of a representative of Eastern Europe.to exercise the post

The Slovak diplomat thanked the trust put in him and advanced the implementation of the 2030 agenda on Sustainable Development and the Paris Climate Agreement as priorities.