The General Assembly approved the summit’s main outcome document — a 42-page “Pact of the Future” — on Sunday morning with a bang of the gavel by Assembly President Philémon Yang signifying consensus, after the body voted 143-7 with 15 abstentions against considering Russian-proposed amendments to significantly water it down.

With a swirl of conflicts and crises across the world, it's not a great moment in international affairs right now.

World body’s own secretary-general rues what he calls ‘the fact that nobody takes even seriously the capacity of the powers to solve problems on

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to be in New York this week for the 78th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly and the Summit of the Future amid increasing geopolitical instability around the world.