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U. S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan speaks at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
DAVOS, Switzerland >> Iran’s most level-headed diplomats and U. S. diplomats will attend public (and separate) one-on-one discussions, while the U. N. leader and the leaders of France, Argentina and Spain will deliver speeches at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting. of a busy day on Wednesday.
The elite gathered at the Swiss ski hotel in Davos are turning to environmental and climate considerations that have animated repeated calls from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for the world to come together and take more united action against warming, after a record year of heat in 2023.
Experts and policymakers will tackle issues such as ensuring a sustainable Middle East and North Africa, tackling plastic waste, and looking for tactics to sustain life on Earth, no less, amid developing threats to biodiversity.
U. S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, after a day of meetings on Monday, adding one with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is in a position to speak with New York Times columnist Tom Friedman. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian will speak with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria.
On Tuesday, U. S. forces carried out a fresh attack on Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen, known as the Houthis, who have disrupted Red Sea shipping routes in weeks by firing missiles at the shores of the impoverished and divided country on the Arabian coast. He arrived here hours after a missile strike hit a U. S. shipment on Tuesday.
Yemeni rebels have waged the crusade in reaction to Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza since Oct. 7, when the Palestinian militant carried out a deadly massacre in Israel and captured hostages.
French President Emmanuel Macron, recently reappointed Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Argentina’s new president — self-described “anarcho-capitalist” Javier Milei — will take the podium Wednesday afternoon, after a morning address by Guterres.
On Tuesday, Zelensky traveled from room to room to meet with CEOs, financiers and political leaders and delivered a speech criticizing his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for Moscow’s long military crusade in Ukraine and its quest for a greater West as Ukraine’s allies show signs of war fatigue.
“Please, strengthen our economy, and we will strengthen your security,” the Ukrainian leader said.
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