He told delegates that 800 million men, women and children scrape by on less than $1.25 a day and that billions of people are at risk of dying from preventable diseases. Many of them simply can’t afford the school fees, or the nearest school is miles away, or they just can’t break through the cultural norms and traditions that deem girls unworthy of an education.
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The speech on Monday from President Obama is described as “defensive and accusatory” by CNN, and it seems like he is not only speaking to other nations but conservatives in his own government. That line drew applause.
President Barack Obama says the United States is willing to work with any nation, including Russian Federation and Iran, to solve the Syrian conflict.
President of the 70th UNGA session Mogens Lykketoft, who is also a former speaker of the Danish Parliament, presided over the session.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will speak before the assembly Tuesday.
World leaders have already begun a whirlwind series of closed-door meetings on Syria on the United Nations sidelines.
“We do it efficiently, which is different from others, who only talk about fighting ISIL”, Fabius said, using an acronym for the Islamic State group.
But Reuters said that it was announced in Baghdad that Russian military officials were working with counterparts from Iran, Syria and Iraq on intelligence and security cooperation to counter Isis.
Obama called on the USA congress to lift sanctions against Cuba, just a month after Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to the island country to reopen the US embassy.
Kerry disagreed, telling reporters: “This is not yet coordinated”.
Briefing reporters on Modi’s meeting with Obama, Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Vikas Swarup said, ‘As far as the substantive issue of climate change is concerned, the PM made it very clear that the current climate of negativism was not a useful factor as we approach COP21 in Paris’.
He said five countries – Russia, the USA, Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia – “hold the key” to leading worldwide efforts to end the conflict.
Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff said on Monday her country can overcome its economic difficulties with fiscal austerity policies aimed at regaining investor confidence after a bruising credit rating downgrade.
Regarding the migrant and refugee crisis, the United Nations chief said “international law, human rights and basic compassion” must guide the world community’s response.
The United Nations was established in 1945 with proclamations that it would guarantee an era of peace, by serving to regulate and contain the conflicts between the major powers that had resulted in two devastating world wars in the space of a single generation.
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North Korea was harsher on Washington. It was set up under the leadership of the United States, the dominant imperialist power, as part of its drive to secure its hegemony over the post-war order.
