A ceasefire in Syria, brokered by the United States and Russian Federation, appears to have collapsed.
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“If you’re in the United States, sometimes you can feel lazy and think we’re so big we don’t have to really know anything about other people”, he told young Laotian leaders.
Still, even as both Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton also stopped by NY this week to meet with world leaders attending the General Assembly, Obama hopes to achieve a last push for greater cooperation between nations even after he leaves office. Present in his audience were representatives of governments that had facilitated, funded, or participated in atrocities against civilians in Syria.
“Many groups have killed many innocents but none more so than the Government of Syria, which continues to barrel-bomb neighbourhoods and systematically torture thousands of detainees”.
“This was done in a low key fashion, with very little media visibility because Clinton honestly still believed there was still a chance to get a deal”, Miller said.
“We are facing a crisis of epic proportion”, Obama said.
Qatar’s emir has criticized the weakness of the United Nations system and the paralysis of the global community in the face of the Syrian civil war and other conflicts.
Obama however reiterated to pursue the hard work of diplomacy and to end the Syrian crisis, which broke out in March 2011 killing so far more than 250,000 people and injuring many more others.
On January 22, 2009, Obama marked his second day after his swearing in as leader of the Free World by nominating George Mitchell as Middle East peace envoy.
“I am more convinced than ever [that we can] end war, poverty and persecution”, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his own opening remarks. Despite enormous progress in institutions, governing becomes more hard.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has made warnings about such refugees a centerpiece of his campaign – the candidate renewed those warnings in the wake of weekend terror attacks in Minnesota, New York and New Jersey involving foreign-born suspects.
The world being “too small”, Obama said in his speech, should reject any forms of fundamentalism or racism or a belief of ethnic superiority, and must instead embrace tolerance that results from respect for all human beings.
Among the steps Mr. Obama has proposed are increasing humanitarian aid for the new arrivals by $3 billion and doubling the number of refugees who are offered resettlement in European Union countries and the U.S.
In a dramatic display of Latin America’s political divisions, the delegations of Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua walked out during Brazilian President Michel Temer’s speech at the U.N. General Assembly.
Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli kicks off the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly as world leaders convene to address most pressing global and regional issues.
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The UN chief hailed the aid workers on the convoy to Aleppo province as “heroes” and said “those who bombed them were cowards” before calling for accountability for crimes committed in the war. “But I believe the road to true democracy remains the better path”.
