U.N. gathering of world leaders unlikely to be 'business as usual'

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The United Nations is looking at different ways to hold its 75th annual gathering of world leaders - traditionally held in New York City - because 'we're not going to have business as usual in September,' a U.N. spokesman said on Thursday.

FILE PHOTO: A worker erects a sign informing people that the United Nations Headquarters will be temporarily closed for tours due to the spread of coronavirus in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., March 10, 2020. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo

New York City is an epicenter for the global coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes the respiratory illness COVID-19 and has killed hundreds of thousands of people globally. Dujarric was responding to questions about an interview given by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to Paris Match. Guterres said it was “unlikely” the United Nations could bring together in New York thousands of people from around the world.

The 193-member United Nations General Assembly and the 15-member Security Council have been operating virtually for two months and that is likely to continue until at least the end of June.

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Will the clown of USA be there? He makes it fun.

At least until we get a leader who can speak in complete sentences on 11/3

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