UNITED NATIONS – The latest from the United Nations General Assembly (EDT of all time):
8:08 p. m.
A UN panel has said that tax abuses, corruption and money laundering drain billions of dollars from governments than perhaps only the world’s poor.
A report by the high-level organization of personalities on foreign monetary responsibility, transparency and integrity published Thursday said governments can agree on the challenge or solution, but they also lose about $500 billion due to corporate tax evasion through for-profit companies.
In addition, the panel estimated that $7 trillion of wealth is hidden in tax havens, with 10% of global GDP abroad, and that cash laundering amounts to about $1. 6 trillion a year, or 2. 7% of global GDP.
“Corruption and tax evasion are endemic,” said former Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskait, co-chair of the group. “Too many banks are in cahoots and too many governments stagnant in the past. We’re all robbed, the poor of the world. “
He said confidence in the monetary formula is essential to address global challenges, adding poverty, climate replacement and the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Instead, we have hesitations and delays that border on complicity,” Grybauskait said.
The report indicates that criminals exploited the COVID-19 pandemic while governments comfortably controlled to accelerate physical care and social protection.
“Our weakness in the fight against corruption and monetary crime has been most revealed through Array. ” COVID-19,” said former Nigerian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mayaki, co-chair of the panel. “Resources to prevent spread remain in other living people and put food on tables are lost because of corruption and abuse.
The purpose of the group is to achieve the purposes of the United Nations 2030, to end excessive poverty, to preserve the environment and gender equality.
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7:30 p. m.
In his first appearance on the world stage, Burundi’s new president said they “have laid the foundation for a strong democracy,” even when opposition figures and human rights teams warn that they see little replacement from their predecessor.
President Evariste Ndayishimiye was elected in May and agreed after the death of former leader Pierre Nkurunziza. Nkurunziza’s government has turned inward after fatal political violence in 2015 triggered by its resolve to run for another term.
Speaking at a meeting of UN world leaders, Ndayishimiye said Burundi “has never ceased to believe in foreign solidarity, multilateralism and rejection of diplomacy. “
Observers say the risk of violence remains, and the new leader has appointed senior officials who are subject to foreign sanctions for alleged abuse.
But Ndayishimiye pointed to the return of some of the thousands of people who had fled the country as a “clear demonstration” of the return to peace.
He stated that the East African country is “stable, quiet and completely under control,” even though the rebels have killed others in recent weeks.
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6:25 p. m.
Few countries face a more complicated recovery from the 2020 crises than Somalia, which in more than 3 decades of shocks and climate shocks now has COVID-19, which is shaking up one of the weakest fitness systems in the world.
“COVID has been a devastating lesson and the most powerful awakening imaginable,” President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed said at the annual meeting of UN world leaders. He said that the horn of the African nation’s economy was suffering from a painful contraction and that “you can believe that this is a huge task for a post-conflict state like Somalia. “
While the degrees of virus detection remain low in the country and it is idea that there will be more instances of the 3,400 confirmed, the representative said the country begins cautiously to reopen its economy, “hoping that the worst will be us. “
He also said he was “afraid” that COVID-19 would widen the gap between the world’s most powerful and fragile states in the face of demanding new situations like climate change, and “this is anything that should have been avoided. at all costs. “
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6:15 p. m.
UN officials have said they have reached a “turning point” in climate change, but they call it a development.
Generally, when scientists communicate about tipping problems with climate replacement, they warn of the large and irreversible melting of the ice sheet or other catastrophic adjustments that push the ecosystem to a point of no return. But UN special envoy for climate finance Mark Carney said Thursday that investment in efforts to replace the climate “is at a turning point. “
It’s not just an impulse. ‘ He said what will happen at the personal point next year could be a help in putting the world in a “virtuous circle. “This can help us achieve our goals. “
Carney said all the world’s largest banks, such as the world’s largest insurers and pension funds, have called for the disclosure of climate-related monetary information.
The European Union has raised its greenhouse fuel relief targets by 55% since 1990 degrees in just ten years. Chile has announced that it will stop using coal power until 2040. Microsoft President Ben Smith explained how the company would remove more carbon from the air. than it would hold until 2030.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, proceeding with his primary effort to ensure that the world does not catch more heat fuel in the environment in the middle of the century and is carbon neutral, announced a virtual summit on climate ambition on December 12, the fifth anniversary of the Paris Weather Agreement, from which American leadership withdraws.
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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 of the virtual assembly of the United Nations General Assembly. Thursday’s comments at the Security Council ministerial assembly on the sidelines of the Assembly reflected deep divisions among the 3 vetoed council members that have intensified since the virus emerged 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 a COVID-19 vaccine a global smart audience available to others around the world.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the pandemic and its “common misfortune have not solved the differences between states, but 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 on the UN to call on presidential and parliamentary elections, as the war-torn country remains divided between rival administrations in the east and west, each 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. You are helped through Turkey and Qatar. His rival, Khalifa Hifter, controls the east and is supported through 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 fell into chaos when a NATO-backed uprising in 2011 overthrew Moamer Kadhafi.
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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 had taken to allow for team adjustments or alleviate 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 pre-recorded speech at the virtual summit of the United Nations General Assembly, speaking from Saudi Arabia, where he lived a war of more than five years that ravaged the poorest country in the Arab world in the 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. A Saudi-led coalition supporting Hadi has been at 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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10:00
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 must pay off debt to lose more resources to fight the virus and its effects, as well as combat other 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 that they want a hundred billion dollars a year over the next 3 years, claiming that it is a fraction of the trillion dollars that some rich countries are using to revive their economies.
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9:50 a. m.
The UN leader said that the global had 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 tiny microscopic virus is now the number one risk in our world. “He blamed the lack of preparation, cooperation, unity and solidarity 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 that the concept of global governance would be expanded “to reach business, civil society, cities and regions, universities and young people. “
Guterres said COVID-19 is a warning “you’ll have to make us act. “
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