Tag: Abdulla Shahid

United Nations: Abdulla Shahid, president of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly, has stressed the need for hope and warned against cynicism. "Throughout all our efforts, there is one constant that needs to be present: hope. Yes, the tasks before us are daunting. Yet cynicism offers us no solutions," he told an informal meeting of the General Assembly on his priorities for the remaining eight months of his office. "Cynicism is a path to inaction. If we give in to it, we will be lulled into complacency, into the...