With the growing frequency of global health threats including the Covid-19 pandemic, the world must come together as a family and engage in more effective health diplomacy, said Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob.

He said this in his inaugural speech at the General Debate of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York yesterday, via a pre-recorded video. The text of his speech was made available to the media in Kuala Lumpur by the Foreign Ministry.

“Our common mission in these unprecedented times call us to recognise that humankind is one big extended family. We must ensure greater collaboration not just to...