The Iran-backed dictatorship of Bashar Assad in Syria was the first state to address the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, using the opportunity to mourn the head of the Iran-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah.
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield reacted to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accusing the United Nations of antisemitism and unfair treatment of Israel by stating that there is “an unfair
Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bouhabib blamed Israel for “war crimes” without mentioning Hamas or Hezbollah at the United Nations.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved Friday’s airstrike on Hezbollah’s headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, from his hotel room in New York City prior to his speech to the United Nations General Assembly.
“In this swamp of antisemitic bile, there’s an automatic majority willing to demonize Israel on anything,” Netanyahu noted.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas demanded Israel be stripped of membership in the United Nations in his address to the 2024 General Assembly (UNGA) on Thursday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed China’s peace proposals as insincere and even treacherous at the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday, insisting only his own proposals can bring “real and just peace” to his people by ending Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion.
Britain’s left-wing Prime Minister’s own ministers struggle to keep on message, laying on criticism of Trump as he hopes to secure a meeting.
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, offered the U.N. General Assembly a succinct speech on Tuesday comprised of two parts: a victory lap on the overwhelming success of his campaign against criminal gangs, and a warning from “a friend” that the current trajectory of the Western world will lead to a “new dark ages of humanity.”
Appeal made to U.N. Security Council and “global south” nations to force Russia to peace, accusing Moscow of targeting nuclear facilities.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called for increased international effort to combat human trafficking networks engaging in child sex slavery and other forms of human bondage during her address at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian used his address to the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday to attack Israel on behalf of Iran’s terrorist clients in Hamas – an unsurprising, but perhaps slightly disappointing, tirade from an Iranian second-in-command who billed himself as a more compassionate, reformist leader.
Argentine President Javier Milei used his debut speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to deliver an enthusiastic condemnation of “globalism and the moral posturing of the woke agenda” and warn that the U.N. flagship Agenda 2030 is a threat to global freedom.
President Joe Biden delivered what might have been his last major international address at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, acknowledging that the world is a more chaotic place but sounding a note of hope.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spent over half of his very lengthy address to the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday criticizing Israel for its war against the terrorists of Hamas and Hezbollah. Erdogan accused the Israelis of genocide, compared them to Nazi Germany, and demanded the U.N. authorize “coercive measures against Israel” to halt the war in Gaza.
King Abdullah II of Jordan rejected at the U.N. the possibility of Jordan taking in Palestinians fleeing war.
Leftist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defended the censorship of anti-globalists at the U.N. General Assembly.
The repressive communist government of Cuba held an event this weekend in New York under the guise of strengthening ties to the global Cuban diaspora – which exists almost entirely as a result of the regime’s human rights atrocities – in which it encouraged Cubans abroad to “participate in the economic development of the country.”
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres complains that growing distrust between major powers is getting in the way of climate cooperation.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held an event in New York on Sunday for thousands of Indians living in the United States.
President of Argentina Javier Milei arrived in New York in the late evening hours of Saturday for a brief visit to the United States in anticipation of addressing the United Nations General Assembly, reportedly on Tuesday.
Monday marked the eve of the United Nations’ General Assembly’s “general debate,” a unique global event in which the world’s heads of government descend on New York City and receive a platform to discuss any topic of their choosing.
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution Wednesday that effectively bars Israel from self-defense in any of the territory it captured in a defensive war in 1967, including in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem.
Iran’s self-proclaimed “moderate” President Masoud Pezeshkian is expected to visit New York next week for the United Nations General Assembly.
The United Nations fact-finding mission on Venezuela denounced that the socialist regime is committing crimes against humanity.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that his government’s support for Ukraine’s “territorial integrity, sovereignty, and independence” is “unwavering.”
The Taliban is repressing women and young girls in Afghanistan with unparalleled restrictions and will jeopardize the country’s future, a shocked U.N. rights chief warned Monday.
U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk on Monday urged voters to be wary of “strongman” politicians and personalities, especially those who “scapegoat migrants, refugees and minorities.”
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping promised more than $50 billion in financing would be available for African nations over the next three years.
Acting Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille said Tuesday his government has received only a fraction of the funding and manpower promised by the international community to fight back against the gangs that have violently taken control over most of the country.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres responded to the murder of American and Israeli hostages by failing to name or condemn Hamas.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported on Thursday that Iran has defied calls from the international community by increasing its already prodigious stockpile of near-weapons-grade uranium, and by refusing to give top IAEA inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
An op-ed in the Wall Street Journal published Thursday scolds United Nations chief António Guterres for spreading climate alarmism based on phony data.
The United Nations World Food Program is investigating two of its top officials in hunger-plagued Sudan for fraud.
The official state news agency of Afghanistan, under the control of the ruling Taliban, claimed in a report on Monday that the United Nations Political Mission for Afghanistan (UNAMA) was working to “facilitate small-scale projects through loan provisions” in a now-deleted article.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned Tuesday that the “climate crisis” threatens the lives of humans all over the world.
Nobody panic (yet) but U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sent out another global climate “SOS” at a Pacific islands summit on Tuesday, delivering his second warning in under a week that rising seas are set to deliver humanity a fatal blow in the region.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield condemned the Houthis for creating an ecological disaster by attacking an oil tanker.
The United Nations issued a warning to the UK on Friday saying the time has come for it to take action to curb racist hate speech, including by politicians.
The United Nations alarmist-in-chief António Guterres warned Thursday that some Pacific territories face “annihilation” from rising sea levels.
