UNITED NATIONS: Laotian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) called for collective actions to tackle global challenges, warning against unilateralism.

Today, the international community is facing multiple crises at an unprecedented level. Following the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, the major challenges facing developing countries vary from poverty, debt, and an unjust international financial architecture to extreme natural calamities, he told the General Debate of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly.