UNITED NATIONS – Newest of the United Nations General Assembly (EDT of all time):
4:55 p. m.
China, the United States and Russia have exchanged accusations at the United Nations about who misunderstood and politicized the coronavirus pandemic.
It was one of the few real-time exchanges between senior officials at the virtual assembly of the United Nations General Assembly. Thursday’s comments at the Ministerial Assembly of the Security Council on the sidelines of the Assembly reflected deep divisions among the 3 vetoed members of the Security Council that has intensified since the virus first made its impression in China.
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi mentioned the importance of UN-centered multilateralism and referred to countries, adding to the United States, which refused to make the COVID-19 vaccine a global smart audience available to others around the world.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the pandemic and its “common misfortune have smoothed the differences between states, but on the contrary, they have made them worse. “
U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft said some were “wasting this opportunity for political purposes. “
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1:30 p. m.
Lithroughan Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj is calling for presidential and parliamentary elections at the UN, as the war-torn country remains divided between rival administrations in the east and west, all subsidized through armed teams and foreign governments.
Sarraj said next year’s elections can lead to democracy and end Libya’s “crisis of legitimacy. “While he called for a political discussion with all libyan factions and regions, he said the exception would be those who “spilled Libyan blood. “
Sarraj delivered his pre-recorded comments at the world’s first Virtual General Assembly since Tripoli, where he is based by the UN. It is aided through Turkey and Qatar. His rival, Khalifa Hifter, controls the east and is supported by neighboring Egypt. , the United Arab Emirates, France and Russian mercenaries.
Sarraj criticized Hifter’s offensive opposed to Tripoli last year, calling it a “tyrannical attack” that attempted to return the country to dictatorship.
Libya plunged into chaos when a NATO-backed uprising in 2011 overthrew Moamer Kadhafi for a long time.
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12:20 p. m.
Another COVID-19 challenge that the UN seeks to solve: how more than 300,000 merchant sailors trapped at sea due to viral restrictions.
Claiming that many sailors are at a “breaking point” after up to a year away from home, Captain Hedi Marzougui presented his case Thursday at an assembly organized through the UN with maritime transport and public transport.
He described his own joy at being trapped aboard his shipment when the pandemic invaded the world and made navigation crews un welcomed in many ports.
He says sailing crews felt like “second-class citizens” despite their increasingly important role in transporting food and medical supplies when air almost collapses.
Maritime Affairs Ministers from Panama, France, Kenya and the Philippines defended the steps they have taken to allow adjustments to the team or mitigate the crisis.
But they deplored the lack of foreign coordination, calling for more cooperation and new regulations for virus countries, respecting the rights of stranded merchant sailors.
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12:20 p. m.
The king of the small island country of Bahrain used his appearance before world leaders to protect his country’s resolve to formalize with Israel.
In a pre-recorded address to the United Nations Virtual General Assembly, King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa also spoke in favor of an independent Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital, a position that, according to the Palestinians, is undermined by the formalization of relations with Israel before concessions are made in peace talks.
Bahrain agreed to normalize relations with Israel two weeks ago following an initiative through the United Arab Emirates in August. The Palestinians have criticized the agreements negotiated through Trump’s leadership as acts of treason.
The king said a two-state solution is the way forward, and said it would “usher in a new era of cooperation. “
Gulf Arab states have forged ties with Israel, in part because of unusual considerations about their rival Iran.
Bahrain’s Sunni leader accuses Iran of arming militants among the country’s Shia majority and of planning attacks against the island nation.
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11:10 a. m.
Yemen’s exiled president and aide is urging his government’s rival, Iran-backed Houthi rebels, to avoid obstructing the delivery of urgent humanitarian aid.
President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi made the call in a prerecorded speech at the virtual summit of the United Nations General Assembly, speaking from Saudi Arabia, where he experienced a war of more than five years that devastated the poorest country in the Arab world in West. tip of the Arabian Peninsula.
Hadi represents Yemen’s government around the world, which was expelled from the capital in 2014 through the Houthis. Since then, a Saudi-led coalition supporting Hadi has gone to war in Yemen, causing the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe. displaced, pushed into poverty and living on the brink of famine.
Hadi accused Iran of meddling in his country and said he “is trying to save our country and identify a just and lasting peace. “
Yemen Data Project says 17,500 civilians have been killed and injured since 2015.
Multiple across the United Nations to negotiate a peace agreement have failed.
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10 hours
African countries made their way on the third day of the annual assembly of UN world leaders, calling for dramatic fiscal measures to help the continent’s economies cope with the coronavirus pandemic.
They seek to pay off debt to drop more resources to fight the virus and its effects, adding up the fight opposed to fatal diseases.
Niger’s President Issoufou Mahamadou said: “We will have to write off this debt. “
The president of Cote d’Ivoire, one of the world’s fastest developing economies before the pandemic, has called for an extension of the debt moratorium and the special spinning rights factor in the International Monetary Fund.
Alassane Ouattara on “Africa’s partners must take bolder action. “He noted that the fight against COVID-19 and its economic effects accounted for 5% of the country’s GDP.
African countries estimate they want $100 billion a year over the next 3 years, and say it’s a fraction of the trillion dollars that some rich countries are using to bring their economies to life.
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9:50 a. m.
The UN leader said the world has not cooperated in the fight opposing the COVID-19 pandemic and that if his reaction to the climate crisis is just as poor, “I am concerned about the worst. “
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the UN Security Council that “the small microscopic virus is now the number one risk in our world. “He blamed the lack of preparation, cooperation, unity and solidarity on the point of the failure of the foreign community.
The Council met on Thursday on the sidelines of the Virtual Assembly of World Leaders of the General Assembly.
Guterres pointed to nearly one million deaths and 30 million international infections and warned that coronavirus remains uncontrollable.
He called for global cooperation, and said the concept of global governance will need to be expanded “to reach business, civil society, cities and regions, universities and young people.
Guterres said COVID-19 is a warning “that will have to motivate us to act. “
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