Live Updates: Day 3 of High-Level Debate at 74th Session of UN General Assembly

UN Envoy Geir Pedersen has stated that he will hold a meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem on the margins of the General Assembly to discuss preparation for the constitutional committee.

In response to visa refusals to several members of the Russian delegation at the UN General Assembly, Moscow has proposed to move the meeting of the UNGA First Committee outside the United States, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Thursday.

“With regard to the response, we have already proposed that meetings, for example, of the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, and the UN Disarmament Commission - there is such a body - should not be held in New York, not in the United States," Ryabkov said in an interview with the International Affairs magazine.   

"We will now see how other members of the international community will react. Not only Russia suffers from this American arrogance, which is turning into an absolutely contemptible farce," Ryabkov added.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with his Georgian counterpart David Zalkaliani on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, which is being held in New York, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Thursday.

"During the conversation, urgent issues on the bilateral agenda were discussed. An exchange of views on regional security issues took place," the statement said.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis discussed the issue of increased migration influx to Greece with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during the 74th session of the UN General Assembly, media reported on Thursday, citing sources in the Greek government.

Mitsotakis urged Turkey to be more cooperative in limiting the migration flow, according to the Greek Kathimerini newspaper.

The leaders agreed to schedule a meeting in the near future between Alternate Minister for Migration Policy Giorgos Koumoutsakos and Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu to address the problem.