UNITED NATIONS – This year’s United Nations General Assembly began with calls for multilateralism and cooperation, that the urgency of countries joining “has rarely been greater”. It ended with a parade of complaints that resonated when the final hammer fell.
Leader after leader in the days of speeches, almost the importance of running in combination to manage the coronavirus epidemic and the demanding situations beyond it. As Germany’s foreign minister COVID-19 put it, “demonstrates that foreign cooperation is not an ideology or an end in itself. On the contrary, it goes far beyond the royal pandemic. “
Words, however, are not results. Although the United Nations and most of its Member States largely glimpse a multilateral world, the underlying problems and demanding situations that divide nations were the focus, as the “right of response” obviously demonstrated at the end of the final consultation.
One by one, they came forward here: lower-level diplomats tasked with responding to leaders’ speeches with intense responses.
In the fiery confrontation between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the separatist enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, country diplomats clashed over the duty of the most recent fighting. Bangladesh has attacked Myanmar because of the more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who fled the Burmese army’s crackdown in 2017 and are living in camps in Bangladesh, still fearful of returning home, and Myanmar responded.
Iran sued Israel after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech that the Islamic Republic would have “enough enriched uranium in a few months for two nuclear bombs” after recently starting to exceed the limits set through the 2015 nuclear agreement with global powers.
An Iranian diplomat accused Israel of ignoring the UN resolution on two-state negotiation with the Palestinians, and responded that Israel “poses the greatest serious threat to the security of Middle Eastern states” because of its widely informed nuclear program, which Israel has never recognized. .
The United Arab Emirates discussed a dispute with Iran over 3 islands occupied through Iran, according to the “destabilizing conduct” of the United Arab Emirates and Tehran in the region, adding by Houthi Shiite rebels in Yemen. the UAE was destabilizing security in the Middle East.
Iran, again invited to respond, insisted on its claim from the islands and agreed to the United Arab Emirates of famine “as a tactic of war in Yemen. “The United Arab Emirates intervened for a moment, insisted on the profession of the islands.
A Yemeni diplomat then replied to the Iranian by saying, “How dare you communicate on stage in Yemen when you are guilty of the stage?”Yemeni accused Iran of “continuing its intervention to destabilize my country by offering money, weapons and gadgets to identify its expansionist plan throughout the region. “
While all the leaders gave pre-recorded speeches, diplomats spoke in user on Tuesday night, sitting with their country’s badge on the vast corridor of the General Assembly, where viral restrictions meant that only one representative from each of the 193 UN member countries was allowed.
The main occasion in person was a virtual assembly of the United Nations Security Council that triggered one of the few real-time exchanges and aimed at America’s on-the-counter confrontation with China. that saw Russia return to Beijing, but the confrontation between the United States and China extends to industry problems, it says in the South China Sea and Taiwan.
The UN Chinese project aired on a Tuesday night just before midnight to protest the participation of US Ambassador Kelly Craft in an online event organized across Taiwan on Monday, and claimed that her comments violated China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
“There is a China in the world and Taiwan is an inalienable component of Chinese territory,” the project said.
In his keynote address to the world meeting, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres painted a bleak picture of the state of the world: a “period” fitness crisis, an economic calamity, threats to human rights, and considerations about a new bloodless war in the United States and China.
Guterres called on global unity, especially to combat the pandemic, and harshly criticized populism and nationalism as failed responses that disturbed the situation.
General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir finished the six-day assembly on Tuesday night on a positive note, reiterating the desire for multilateralism and unity.
“The demanding situations we face are huge, as are the chances of a solution,” he said. “Running together, we can triumph over them. “
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