UNITED NATIONS – Newest of the United Nations General Assembly (EDT of all time):
8:10 p. m.
He did not get a seat at the United Nations General Assembly, but U. S. -backed Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaida has circulated his own message online at this year’s assembly of world leaders.
On his social media, the U. S. guy as Venezuela’s valid president refuted Wednesday after comments made through Nicols Maduro.
He stood in front of 4 Venezuelan flags and spoke as if he were heading to a room full of accumulated dignitaries for the annual event.
In his recorded statements, Guaidao on nations to denounce human rights violations committed through Maduro’s government.
He referred to a recent in-depth report commissioned through the UN Human Rights Council accusing Maduro’s government of committing crimes opposed to humanity, torture and killings attributed to security forces.
Guaid is identified through about 60 countries as President of Venezuela and is in a two-year confrontation with Maduro, but struggled to build on the momentum he generated last year.
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6:50 p. m.
Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro called the United States “the greatest serious risk to world peace” in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, while asking Trump’s leadership to lift punitive sanctions.
In a long speech, Maduro said his country is in a position to resist a “criminal and inhuman assault” that aims to take him out of force and leave open the option of dialogue.
The message on topics ranging from COVID-19 to recent US protests pre-recorded and broadcast before the UN demonstration on Wednesday.
Maduro attended the annual occasion last year amid the growing tension of the United States and nearly 60 other countries to resign.
This year’s virtual collecting allowed him to return to the world stage.
The speech comes when Maduro takes over the political dispute with Juan Guaid, and the U. S. -backed opposition leader is expected to make his own comments tonight.
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6:15 p. m.
The Afghan president is urging the world for his war-torn country to achieve peace in talks with the Taliban aimed at ending nearly two decades of conflict.
Ashraf Ghani called on Wednesday in a pre-recorded speech to the United Nations General Assembly, saying that the country faces “multiple points of unrest at the same time” but that “peace remains our top priority and priority. “
A U. S. -led coalition expelled the Taliban from force in Afghanistan in 2001 for housed Osama bin Laden, the architect of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Trump’s leadership signed a peace agreement with the Taliban in February and long-delayed talks despite everything. began in Qatar on 12 September.
During the talks, Ghani said, “the other Afghans have a transparent and urgent priority: a ceasefire. “
He called on the other 192 members of the General Assembly to contribute to a “sovereign, united and democratic Afghanistan. “
The Afghan president said the result would show “how our collective will can triumph over the confusion and uncertainty that defines our current world. “
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5 p. m.
Bolivia’s Interim President Jeanine Ez told the United Nations Virtual General Assembly that her country’s upcoming elections are a selection of freedom and oppression.
The South American leader referred slightly to the coronavirus pandemic, referring to her country’s internal unrest in a pre-recorded video wednesday.
Bolivia is expected to hold a presidential vote on 18 October that had been delayed during the pandemic.
He took strength after the dismissal of Evo Morales in November 2019, who recently retired from the next race, saying he sought to split the voices of those who oppose morales’ return.
Morales, the country’s first indigenous president, resigned under pressure from the army and police amid widespread protests.
He said populist projects constitute a “new form of authoritarianism” in Latin America.
Human Rights Watch recently concluded that terrorism tariffs opposing Morales appear to be politically motivated and part of a broader crusade across Bolivia’s interim government to use the judicial formula opposed to political opponents.
The interim has denied the allegations.
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4:40 p. m.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy used his address to the United Nations General Assembly to urge the “unemployment” of Crimea, annexed to Russia, and remind the world that his country is caught up in a frozen war with Moscow-backed rebels.
Zelenskiy made no reference to the United States or its upcoming elections, in which his country played an involuntary role. This year’s political trial of US President Donald Trump focused on accusations that he emphasized Zelenskiy to investigate the movements of his Democratic rival Joe Biden and his son in Ukraine.
Zelenskiy, on the other hand, spoke about Russia in his pre-recorded speech on Wednesday, calling it “unacceptable when the sovereignty of an independent country is violated through one of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. “
Like many leaders, he expressed the hope that countries would simply combine to fight the coronavirus and that the 75th General Assembly would “go down in history as an example of a return to effective multilateralism and effective external solidarity. “
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3:10 p. m.
Kenya’s president has given the 75-year-old UN a generational shock, noting that the global framework has more than 96% of the world’s population.
In a pre-recorded address to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, Uhuru Kenyatta said the United Nations was created to bring hope to a world in ruins after World War II, “but what does it bring to today’s world?”
The statement comes from an African nation. The continent has the youngest population in the world, with an average age of 19 years, and this developing population is eager to see leaders over their age.
African leaders also need to change the United Nations formula that helps keep world powers in charge 75 years ago, while the other 1. 3 billion Africans lack a permanent seat in the UN’s toughest body, the Security Council.
This week, at the united Nations rally of world leaders, African nations back made it clear that it was time for this to change.
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2:30 p. m.
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez said that, as a survivor of COVID-19, he became involved in the physical state and social inequalities exacerbated by the pandemic.
The Central American leader was hospitalized after positive for COVID-19 in July.
In a pre-recorded video released Wednesday at the United Nations General Assembly, Hernandez said that in the global rush to inventory medicines and hospital devices in the early months of the pandemic, “only a few countries would get enough access. “
He added: “They’re not the ones who love him the most. “
Nations that produce materials are kept to their own people. Hernandez asked, “What about the rest of the countries?Are people dying?”
Hernández also asked who will have to get vaccinated.
He concluded by noting that “the virus reminded us in the greatest difficulty that in the end we are all human, vulnerable, members of the same species”.
Honduras has diagnosed more than 72,000 people in the country of 9. 5 million people.
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1:20 p. m.
Lebanon’s president has asked the network to rebuild the country’s main port and destroy neighborhoods after last month’s catastrophic explosion decimating the facility.
President Michel Aoun spoke Wednesday in a pre-recorded speech at the virtual summit of the United Nations General Assembly, and told world leaders that Lebanon is facing a crisis that poses an unprecedented risk to the existence of the small country.
He said urgently that the country needed the resources of the foreign network to rebuild its economy and the destroyed port, and recommended dividing the broken parts of the city into separate spaces so that countries wishing for help could devote themselves to rebuilding one.
The August 4 explosion was the result of nearly 3,000 tons of poorly stored and decaying ammonium nitrates that were lit at the port. The explosion killed about two hundred more people, wounded 6,500 and left a quarter of a million people in undignified homes. for life.
An investigation is underway, but no one has been convicted so far. Aoun, in his speech, said Lebanon had asked some countries for help, especially for soil samples and satellite images, and that it is still waiting for its results.
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11:35 a. m.
Kazakhstan’s president said the world has witnessed a collapse in foreign cooperation in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic and is approaching a state of “global dysfunction. “
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said in a pre-recorded speech at the first high-level virtual assembly of the United Nations General Assembly that the post-Cold War world had largely missed the opportunity to build a fair de facto system.
It was said by a “decisive moment” for humanity.
The Kazakh leader called for the modernization of national fitness institutions, the elimination of the policy of developing a vaccine opposed to coronaviruses, and the revision of regulations to develop the capacity of the World Health Organization “and expand national capacity for disease prevention and response. “
Tokayev recommended the construction of a network of regional disease centres under the auspices of the United Nations and a new “International Agency for Biological Security” founded on the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention and accountable to the United Nations Security Council.
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11:29 a. m.
Iraqi President Barham Saleh is calling for help dealing with the many crises facing Iraq amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Despite limited resources resulting from years of wars, blockades and violence, Iraq has implemented some measures to stop the spread of coronavirus, Saleh said in his pre-recorded address to the United Nations General Assembly. ‘.
Infrastructure’s weakness in the face of expansion is a constant challenge,” Saleh added.
“Developed countries will need to assist emerging countries in creating an anti-pandemic combat environment and restrict its destructive effects,” he said.
A sharp drop in oil costs has exacerbated the economic unrest caused by the pandemic, he said. He also renewed his calls to the foreign network to create a coalition to combat corruption, saying that mismanagement is a “scourge” in his country that allows the financing of terrorism.
“We eliminate terrorism if we don’t dry its funding,” he said.
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