Unversed in UNGA? Here’s your handy guide to UN General Assembly meeting lingo

The U.N. General Assembly’s yearly meeting of world leaders is here — and with it, an array of acronyms, abbreviations, titles, and terms. Here is some key vocabulary, decoded.

For starters …
UNGA: Shorthand (often pronounced “UN’-gah”) for the U.N. General Assembly’s “High-level Week,” when presidents, prime ministers, monarchs and other top leaders of all 193 U.N. member countries are invited to speak to the world and each other.

New Yorkers sometimes just use “General Assembly” to describe what many experience mainly as a week of street closures and whizzing motorcades, but the assembly isn’t just this meeting. It’s a body that discusses many global issues and votes on resolutions throughout the year.

GENERAL DEBATE: The centerpiece of the week, it gives each country’s leader (or a designee) the mic for a state-of-the-world speech. This year’s theme is “Better Together,” emphasizing unity, solidarity and working collectively. But speakers use their