UNITED NATIONS – The latest from the United Nations General Assembly (All The Time EDT):
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 has played an involuntary role. This year’s political trial of U. S. President Donald Trump focused on allegations that he emphasized Zelenskiy to investigate the movements of his Democratic rival Joe Biden and his son in Ukraine.
Instead, Zelenskiy spoke about Russia in his pre-recorded speech 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.
The Kenyan president has given the 75-year-old UN a generational shake-up, 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, at an average age of 19, and this developing population is eager to see leaders several times older than them.
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 to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, Hernandez said that in the global rush to inventory medicines and hospital devices in the early months of the pandemic, “only a few countries were able to save enough access. “
He added: “These are 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?”
Hernandez also asked who will have to be vaccinated.
He concluded by noting that “the virus reminded us in the most complicated way 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 resulted in nearly 3,000 tons of decaying ammonium nitrates stored incorrectly and lit at the port. The explosion killed about two hundred more people, wounded 6,500 and left a quarter of a million more people in homes that weren’t worth living.
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 near 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. But the ‘journey has been long and arduous’.
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 form 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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11:17 a. m.
K-pop superstars, BTS, are sending a message of encouragement to other young people around the world in a video published at the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly of World Leaders.
Members of the South Korean organization talk about how they dealt with the isolation emotions of the coronavirus pandemic in the video broadcast Wednesday through UNICEF, the United Nations children’s agency.
The pandemic forced the seven-member boy band to cancel the concerts this spring. Members stated in the video that the sudden slowdown in their busy lives is complicated but productive.
“COVID-19 beyond my imagination,” said RM, the organization’s leader. “All our plans are gone and I have been left alone.
Other BTS members said they also felt adrift at first, but they used the time to reflect and turn their emotions into music.
“Our songs have become the stories we were looking to tell each other. We live in uncertainty, but nothing has really changed,” said organization member Jung Kook. “If there’s anything I can do, if our voices can give other people’s strength, that’s what we want, and that’s what we’re going to keep doing. “
The organization encouraged others to take care of themselves and, in RM’s words, to “dream of a long career in which our worlds can re-emerge from our small rooms. “
BTS has already committed to the UN before, on a UNICEF occasion at the General Assembly meeting in 2018.
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10:45 a. m.
King Salman of Saudi Arabia used his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday to highlight his country’s Islamic roots and criticize his rival, Iran.
Reading a paper and sitting at a table under a giant portrait of his father, King Abdulaziz, the monarch reiterated the sacred role of Islam in Saudi Arabia, which, according to Muslims, revealed to the Prophet Muhammad more than 1,400 years ago in the mountain caves of Mecca.
He provided the kingdom’s role as G20 president this year and the billions of dollars in humanitarian aid that Saudi Arabia has for countries around the world over the next few decades.
He refrained from criticizing recent agreements between the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to identify ties with Israel, but under pressure that the kingdom remained committed to the Arab Peace Initiative, which provides Israel with full ties with Arab states in exchange for concessions leading to a Palestinian. State. . He also said Saudi Arabia welcomed America’s efforts in the face of the crisis.
He said the Middle East was suffering primary political and security challenges, blaming Iran for much of the instability in the region and accusing Iran’s Iran-backed Hezbollah organization in Lebanon of sowing the political turmoin that was nevertheless blamed for the devastating explosion. beirut harbor last month.
He said Saudi Arabia had tried to make his hand bigger over the years with Iran, “but it was in vain. He blamed Iran for Saudi oil comforts last year, saying, “This has shown that Iran completely ignores the stability of the global economy or the stability of petroleum materials in foreign markets. “
The 84-year-old monarch’s pre-recorded comments make it the ideal time to face the world assembly as Saudi king. The only other Saudi monarch to do so was his late brother King Saud in 1957 at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
The reign of King Salman, who ascended to the throne in early 2015, was characterized by extensive domestic reforms and increased regional tensions with his rival, Iran. He also came out of the dark and applauded his favorite 35-year-old son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and gave him day-to-day decision-making powers over the world’s largest oil exporter.
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