New York, Sept. 24 -- State President Luong Cuong delivered a keynote speech at the High-Level General Debate of the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 80) in New York on September 23 (local time), highlighting a message of honouring the value of peace, driving bold transformation to shape a sustainable future.

The Vietnamese leader affirmed that over the past 80 years, the UN has embodied mankind's shared aspiration for peace, cooperation, and development, based on universal values of human rights, national independence, equality, democracy, and social progress. However, he noted that the world today faces unprecedented challenges, including conflicts, localised wars, arms races, the use of force or threat of forc...