Venezuela’s U.N. Ambassador Rafael Ramirez told The Associated Press Tuesday that Temer is “an illegitimate president, the product of a coup d’etat”. He called the current situation a crisis of epic proportions. He said “impeaching a president is certainly not a trivial matter in a democratic regime”.
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“The increasing skepticism of our worldwide order can be found in the most advanced democracies. This is what Brazil is showing the world”.
Felipe met with Ban on Tuesday morning at U.N. headquarters after the opening of the 71st General Assembly session, a meeting at which the king expressed his gratitude for the work Ban has performed as secretary-general “in defense of the values of the United Nations”.
“As a friend of both the Israeli and Palestinian peoples, it pains me that this past decade has been ten years lost to peace”, Ban said.
The two leaders will convene Wednesday amid increasing concerns over Russian drills conducted without advance notification.
According to Ban, whose 10-year term of office will conclude in December, sexual exploitation and the cruel abuse committed by the blue helmets worsened the conditions of populations already damaged by armed conflicts.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II, whose country has seen 2.5 million Syrian refugees pass through since 2011 and is now hosting 1.5 million, stressed the need to work on a macro level in order to make progress on a micro level.
“These are not people who can envision what life would be like if they were returned to their home countries”, Huang said.
“In order to move forward though, we do have to acknowledge that the existing path to global integration requires a course correction”, Mr Obama said.
Felipe, who will meet again with the United Nations chief at the main table of the luncheon the global body offers annually to participants at the high-level General Assembly conference, also spoke on Tuesday morning with Senegalese President Macky Sall and, after a meeting with the president of the worldwide Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, is also scheduled to meet with Jordan’s King Abdullah II.
Seven years after he first appeared before world leaders at the United Nations to call for a “new era of engagement with the world, ” Mr Obama argued that he had delivered on his pledge.
He said that the world “cannot dismiss these visions”, as they are “powerful”, but he rejected them and choices that elevate authoritarianism, strongmen and other forces that harm liberalism.
“We can not avert our eyes or turn our backs – to slam the door in the face of these families would betray our deepest values”.
President Obama used his final speech to the U.N. General Assembly to urge countries to do more to help refugees and migrants.
In his final speech to the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Obama says the kind of thinking that favors “the strong man” over true democracy is wrong.
“We see too many governments muzzling journalists and quashing dissent and censoring the flow of information”, he said.
For the president today, a moment on the world stage at the United Nations one last time, his message no less than an urgent plea to make a better world.
“Despite enormous progress, as people lose trust in institutions, governing becomes more hard and tensions between nations become more quick to surface”, he said.
At the heart of his approach, Obama said, is a belief that conflicts are best solved when nations cooperate and a willingness to engage with erstwhile adversaries like Cuba and Myanmar.
Still, Obama insisted it was critical not to gloss over “enormous progress” on economics and global cooperation that he said formed a template for tackling the problems of the future.
Russia, Obama said, remained a threat to the worldwide order. Last week, USA and Russian diplomats negotiated a ceasefire in the region in hopes that the two global powers might join forces against ISIS and Nusra front fighters.
In the ensuing seven years, Obama maintained his insistence upon pursing diplomatic resolutions to sticky global disputes, best evidenced in the controversial agreement to loosen sanctions on Iran in exchange for the country reducing its nuclear program.
India on Tuesday accused Pakistan of firing at an Indian military position in Kashmir, which Pakistan denied.
“Present in this hall today are representatives of governments that have ignored, facilitated, funded, participated in or even planned and carried out atrocities inflicted by all sides of he Syria conflict against Syrian civilians”, he said.
The two leaders also discussed the alarming situation on the Korean Peninsula and in South Sudan.
Leaders and representatives from 193 member countries in the world, including Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena attended the summit, which inaugurated under the patronage of UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon.
Bocelli’s performance of Nessun Dorma on Monday earned a standing ovation from heads of state.
As far as the threat posed by migrants, Mr. Trump also has cited an internal Homeland Security Department audit showing that the US mistakenly granted citizenship to at least 858 immigrants from “special interest countries” that present national security concerns or high rates of immigration fraud.
Those intractable problems are largely the focus of Obama’s bilateral agenda in NY this week, including during talks with Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi Monday to plot a campaign to retake ISIS-held Mosul. At least half a dozen small island nations including Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Kiribati will also follow suit.
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US President Barack Obama has urged world leaders to “open our hearts” to refugees, in his final United Nations speech.
