UN (AP) – World leaders began convening on Monday at one of the most unstable moments in the UN’s 80-year history, and the challenges they face are escalating the indomitable wars in Gaza and Ukraine, the changing escalating changes in the US approach to the world, hungry people everywhere, and more stubborn than managing them.
The United Nations itself emerged from the WWII tile Ble on the premise that states would cooperate in tackling political, social and financial issues. As Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said last week, “International cooperation is strained under pressure that has not been seen in our lives.”
However, the annual high-level gathering at the UN General Assembly brings presidents, ministers and monarchs from around 150 UN member states to the UN headquarters. The Secretary-General says it is an opportunity not to be missed – even in the most challenging moments.
“We are gathering in turbulent flows. He pointed out that among other youkai, “overheating on our planets, new technology that advances without guardrails, inequality grows every hour.”
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Guterres said he will use more than 150 one-on-one meetings with leaders and ministers to discuss and bridge each other with leaders and ministers, reduce risk and encourage them to find solutions.
He said leaders must make progress rather than simply engage in “stances and commitments.”
However, UN watchers have said in a deeply biased world where there is no prospect of a ceasefire in Gaza. Ukraine And whether Sudan, high-level meetings will make progress remains a big question mark.
Richard Gowan, UN director of International Crisis Group, said he is confident that three topics will dominate the high-level week. President Donald Trump’s first appearance in his second term, the horrifying situation in Gaza, and the next of the United Nations, which is primarily working to cut US payments and staff, is due to cuts in US payments and peace budgets.
Ghawan said he expects nearly two years of war in Gaza to become a central issue as Israel forced thousands of people into reports from independent experts commissioned by the UN Human Rights Council that condemned Israel, and launched a major attack in Gaza city, following reports from independent experts who appointed Israel. Fucking genocide in Gaza. Israel rejected the allegation and called the report “distorted and false.”
Riyadh Mansour, Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, emphasized that “Palestine will become a huge elephant in this session of the General Assembly.”
It will be centred on Monday and in a high-level meeting co-chaired by France and Saudi Arabia to implement two-state solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for nearly eight years. And the spotlight is brighter as the Trump administration granted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas a US visa and refused to speak at that meeting and general meeting.
On Friday, the General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution that allowed Abbas to speak on video. This was just as it was for Ukrainian President Voldymi Zelenki after the Russian invasion in 2022. This year, Zelenskyy will be in person and the Security Council will meet in Ukraine on Tuesday.
The Congress voted overwhelmingly earlier this month to support the two states’ solutions and urge Israel to commit to the Palestinian state. A few hours before the vote, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “There will be no Palestinian state.”
More than 145 countries already recognize Palestine as a province, and Mansoor told the Associated Press on Sunday that it would “have another 10.” Also, high-level weeks are expected to see the Security Council meeting in Gaza, possibly on Tuesday afternoon.
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The high-level meeting will begin on Tuesday morning in a vast general meeting room. Trump speaks the day shortly after Guterres’ opening “World of State” speech.
Gowan says there is “hope” that Trump will feel positive and promotes international achievements the president says he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Also about Docket: Trump’s financial approach to the bigger world. “Obviously, most leaders will be focusing on what he has to say about tariffs,” Gowan said, as well as about Russia and China.
Other speakers to watch are interim Syrian president Ahmad Alshara, who made his international debut in December following the expulsion of former Strongman Bashar Assad. Iranian President Masuud Pezeshkian.
Iranian leaders will become New York after the Security Council decided not to permanently lift its UN sanctions on its escalating nuclear programme, but that gave major European powers, such as France, Germany and the UK, to agree to the delay until late at night on September 27th. That’s when sanctions are automatically “snapback” unless the transaction is reached.
There are also many meetings on climate change efforts in the high-level week. Over 2 years War in Sudan It began with rival military and paramilitary generals who caused the world’s worst evacuation crisis. Above Somaliahome to the extremist group Al-Shabab. And in Haiti, where gangs have controlled more than 90% of the capital and has expanded into the countryside.
Monday’s event commemorates the 30th anniversary Beijing Women’s Meetingadopted a platform to achieve gender equality. The UN says the goal is farther away, and Guterres says it’s 300 years away on the current track.
One of Guterres’ main objectives this year is to generate support for his plan to reform the United Nations, making him more sensitive to the world in 2025. The United Nations has announced that it will need to cut its regular operating budget by 2026 by 15% in order to cut funding by the US and others. – 2,681 posts.
Gowan said he would not see the US or other countries fleeing the UN. However, he emphasized that it has been going through “very difficult times” and must be scaled down and changed.
“The United Nations’ resonance with issues of peace and security is definitely not what it is,” he said, “but I think the organization will continue to be confused.”
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Edith M. Lederer has covered the Associated Press international issues for over half a century.
