Video: Volkan Bozkir applied online for vaccination through the New York State Department of Health and waited in line to enter the Javits Center on Thursday morning. He was eligible to get vaccinated simply because he lives in New York and he is over the age of 65, said his spokesman Brenden Varma. (Xinhua)

Volkan Bozkir encouraged all people to get vaccinated when they can, saying that vaccines save lives.

UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 4  -- The president of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly, Volkan Bozkir, received his first dose of COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, said his spokesman.

Bozkir was given a Pfizer BioNTech vaccine at the Javits Center in New York, said Brenden Varma, his spokesman.