UNITED NATIONS – Newest of the United Nations General Assembly (EDT of all time):
6:23 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 confirmed 3,400, the representative said the country was cautiously starting 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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6:14 p. m.
UN officials have said they have reached a “tipping point” on climate change, but they call this a development.
Generally, when scientists communicate about tipping problems with climate replacement, they warn of 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, as well 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 is 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 Security Council ministerial assembly on the sidelines of the Assembly reflected deep divisions among the 3 veto-power council members that have intensified since the outbreak of the virus 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 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 in the afternoon.
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 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 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 being away from home for up to a year, Captain Hedi Marzougui defended his case Thursday at a UN-organized assembly with shipping companies and the government.
He described his own joy at being trapped aboard his shipment as 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.
The ministers of Maritime Affairs of Panama, France, Kenya and the Philippines defended the steps they have taken to allow team adjustments 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. “
The Arab Gulf states have forged ties with Israel, in part because of not unusual considerations about 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 called for a pre-recorded speech at the virtual summit of the United Nations General Assembly, speaking from Saudi Arabia, where he lived for more than five years a war that ravaged the arab world’s poorest country in the far west. 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.
Multiples across the UN 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 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 that they want $100 billion a year over the next 3 years, and say it is 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 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. “It blamed the lack of preparation, cooperation, unity and solidarity for 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 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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