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25-09-2024
NEW YORK: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addressed rising “impunity, inequality, and unpredictability” throughout the world with a push for 193-member states to focus on “more effective, inclusive, and networked multilateralism”.
US President Joe Biden delivered his final address to the world body on “how the world should come together” with his foreign policy legacy under the microscope as wars rage in Ukraine, Gaza and Lebanon.
US President Joe Biden finished his address by touching on several issues before reiterating his motivation for dropping out of the US presidential race. Here’s what he said; Biden decried the rise of attacks in Israeli-occupied territories: “(We) must also address the rise of violence against innocent Palestinians on the West Bank and set the conditions for a better future, including a two-state solution.”
He called for an end to fighting in Sudan a day after naming the United Arab Emirates which has been accused of fueling Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacks with illegal weapons transfers, a “major defence partner”.
The US president said world leaders must do more to invest in sustainable development goals, cut greenhouse emissions, prepare for pandemics, stop the illegal flow of weapons, and monitor the effects of artificial intelligence.
Biden reiterated that the US supports reforming and expanding the UN Security Council. The United States, however, does not support adding more veto members, such as itself.
He ended by discussing his decision not to run for re-election, which he announced in July. “My fellow leaders, let us never forget some things are more important than staying in power, it’s your people,” he said.
Other speakers on the opening day of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) include Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
The gathering in New York City comes a week after UNGA overwhelmingly adopted a resolution calling on Israel to end its illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories within a year, a move Palestine hailed as “historic”.
Erdogan says “international justice” cannot be left to the five Security Council members, adding that the biggest example is the “massacre that has been going on in Gaza”. “Since October 7, 41,000 Palestinians have been killed in the continuous Israeli attacks 41,000 lives, 41,000 people, mostly children and women were ruthlessly taken away and no one knows where more than 10,000 people are,” he said. “172 journalists were killed while trying to do their job under very difficult circumstances and more than 500 medics have been killed while they were trying to save lives.
“They (Israel) hit marketplaces, tents, and camps where refugees were sheltered, they hit 820 mosques and three churches that shouldn’t have been touched even in war and they deliberately hit dozens of hospitals, dozens of schools… they shredded the charter of the United Nations from the rostrum of the United Nations and shamelessly challenged the whole world.”
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, addressing the UN General Assembly, expressed Turkey’s “pleasure to see the representative of our friend and brother Palestine in his rightful place among the member states”.
“I hope this historic step will be the final turning point on the road leading to Palestine’s membership of the United Nations,” Erdogan added.
“The international community and all of us in the human family must fulfil our obligation to the Palestinian people without further ado, that haven’t done already.” (Int’l News Desk)
