Skopje, 20 September 2022 (MIA) – Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski attended Tuesday the opening of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly themed “A watershed moment: transformative solutions to interlocking challenges”. PM Kovachevski, accompanied by Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani, North Macedonia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ljubomir Frchkovski and foreign policy advisor Edmond Ademi, will hold several bilateral meetings and deliver a lecture at the Columbia University during his stay in New York. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres opened the general debate, calling for joint action and dialogue as the only way to ensure development, while adding that no global challenge can be resolved without the joint efforts of all countries and stakeholders, the Government said in a press release. Later in the day, Kovachevski and Western Balkans counterparts will attend a working lunch hosted by Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. On Wednesday, the PM is set to address the high-level meeting to mark the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities. Kovachevski is set to address the UNGA general debate on September 24.