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Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library, President Barack Obama calls for a vot…
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library, President Barack Obama calls for a vote as he chairs a United Nations Security Council summit on foreign terrorist fighters at the United Nations in New York, N.Y., Sept. 24, 2014. (P092414PS-0706)
United Nations General Assembly Visit 2014
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library, President Barack Obama calls for a vote as he chairs a United Nations Security Council summit on foreign terrorist fighters at the United Nations in New York, N.Y., Sept. 24, 2014. (P092414PS-0706)

United Nations General Assembly Visit 2014

Event TypeIntergovernmental Summit
September 23, 2014 - September 25, 2014
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The sixty-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly ran from September 16, 2014 to September 15, 2015 and was presided over by Sam Kutesa of Uganda. The theme of the sixty-ninth session was "Delivering on and Implementing a Transformative Post-2015 Development Agenda.”

President Barack Obama attended the assembly from September 23 to September 25, 2014. President Obama presented a speech to the General Assembly on September 24, 2014 in which he vowed to combat religious extremism, condemned Russia’s actions in Ukraine, urged global action against climate change. President Obama also took part in various meetings and councils.
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Additional information about President Obama’s visit to the United Nations General Assembly in September 2013 can be read on the archived Obama White House website: "Diplomacy in Action: The United Nations General Assembly"
The text of President Obama’s remarks at the United Nations General Assembly on September 24, 2014 can be read on the archived Obama White House website: "Remarks by President Obama in Address to the United Nations General Assembly"