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The President of Brazil, Michael Temer, begins by asking how many people participated in this forum and called for an improved world order.

He continues to say that this is an important question to ask: "The challenge is to the integrity of the current international order are many.

Temer says that isolation is on the rise and that "old forms of intolerance are being revived".

In the meantime, he says, Brazil is not isolationist, touting all the countries with which his government has worked.

Some initial reactions to Guterres' speech:

And a deep cut for the nerds of international relations:

The president of the general assembly, María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, is on stage to welcome the crowd.

She says that it is the only assembly that allows world leaders to "hear and be heard on an equal footing".

"We live in an interconnected world, leaving us the choice to pursue a global dialogue," she says.

She says the first priority of this general assembly is the equality of the sexes.

• The second: new global agreement on migrants and refugees.
• Third: improve employment.
• Fourth: climate change and improvement of the protection of the environment.
• Fifth: political and social commitment to help people with disabilities.
• Sixth: the revitalization of the United Nations.
• Seventh: peace and security and the role of young people in conflict prevention. "Sustainable peace must be based on dialogue and understanding," she says.

The conflict is resolved by conversation and understanding, she says.

The speech returns to optimism after a gloomy deterioration of the main world conflicts and the instability of democratic institutions.

Guterres talks about cooperation between countries historically disagree, including improving relations on the Korean peninsula.

Once again, he talks a lot about the importance of gender equality.

Guterres quotes former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan: "We share a common destiny, we can only master it if we face it together and my friends are the reason we have them. United Nations.

Now for technology.

Guterres says that rapid technological advances have benefits but have also been problematic.

"The very nature of the work will change," he warns, arguing that the impact of technology on the labor market will force countries to increase public benefits and underlines the need for a universal basic income. .

According to him, technology is used by terrorists and for purposes of sexual exploitation.

He says technology exploits the gender gap and strengthens male power structures.

He argues that the impact of new technologies on warfare poses a direct threat to the common goal of ensuring peace.

"The machines perspective with the discretion and power to take human life is morally repugnant," he says.

Guterres emphasizes the fate of the refugees, warning that countries "that close their borders to migrants are only fueling the work of traffickers".

He speaks at length about climate change and the immense threat it poses to the world. "Climate change is moving faster than us"

"We have to listen to the best scientists in the world," he says.

Guterres offers to invest in green businesses.

He announces a meeting on climate change next September, devoted to the environment and finance. It is scheduled for one year before the deadline set by countries to revise their commitments in the Paris climate agreement.

"The world needs you to be climate champions, all of you."

Guterres says that "with leadership engaged in strategic cooperation," the world can avoid war.

He calls the heads of state together "guardians of the common good".

Guterres is committed to making the UN more efficient and says that improving global relations will improve the trust deficit mentioned earlier.

It refers to major world conflicts, including the war in Syria, the conflict in Yemen, the Rohingya crisis and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres spoke after a video tribute to Kofi Annan, a former secretary-general who died in August, and a short film about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Guterres begins with: "Our world is suffering from a bad case of loss of confidence."

He says people are losing trust in institutions and global relations are more conflictual.

"Trust in global governance is also fragile," he says.

"We are facing a series of paradoxes: the world is more connected, but societies are becoming more fragmented."

Yesterday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned that Syria is facing a perpetual war unless Russia agrees to transform the ceasefire of one country. months in Idlib in a broader political agreement.

US National Security Adviser John Bolton also spoke of the possibility of an endless conflict in the United Nations General Assembly:

Hello and welcome

Welcome to the live coverage of the general debate of the UN General Assembly, where world leaders will present their priorities on the international stage.

The session will open at 9:00 am, local time, in New York (2 pm in London), with remarks by Secretary General António Guterres. He will be followed by the president of the general assembly, María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés.

Then, as usual, Brazil will be the first country to speak, followed immediately by US President Donald Trump, who last year threatened to "totally destroy North Korea."

We will have live updates of today's speeches, with the analysis of the Guardian's team of experts, including the global affairs editor, Julian Borger, which reports from the UN headquarters in New York. While waiting for Guterres to speak, you can read the preview of Julian's summit.