{"id":9511,"date":"2024-09-24T15:43:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T09:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=9511"},"modified":"2024-09-24T15:43:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T09:58:11","slug":"world-leaders-meet-under-shadow-of-global-divisions-3-wars-and-possible-mideast-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/world-leaders-meet-under-shadow-of-global-divisions-3-wars-and-possible-mideast-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"World leaders meet under shadow of global divisions, 3 wars and possible Mideast conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"
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World leaders will open their annual meeting at the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday under the shadow of increasing global divisions, major wars in Gaza, Ukraine and, Sudan and the threat of an even larger conflict in the wider Middle East.<\/p>\n

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres previewed his opening \u201cState of the World\u201d speech to presidents, prime ministers, monarchs and ministers at Sunday\u2019s \u201cSummit of the Future,” saying \u201cour world is heading off the rails \u2014 and we need tough decisions to get back on track.\u201d<\/p>\n

He pointed to conflicts \u201craging and multiplying, from the Middle East to Ukraine and Sudan, with no end in sight\u201d and to the global security system, which he said is \u201cthreatened by geopolitical divides, nuclear posturing, and the development of new weapons and theaters of war.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also cited huge inequalities, the lack of an effective global system to respond to emerging and even existential threats, and the devastating impact of climate change.<\/p>\n

One notable moment at Tuesday\u2019s opening assembly meeting: U.S. President Joe Biden\u2019s likely final major appearance on the world stage, a platform he has tred upon for decades.<\/p>\n

U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told reporters last week that the U.S. focus in the assembly will be on ending \u201cthe scourge of war,\u201d lamenting that roughly 2 billion people live in conflict-affected areas.<\/p>\n

But she also said: \u201cThe most vulnerable around the world are counting on us to make progress, to make change, to bring about a sense of hope for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among other speakers on opening day are Brazil\u2019s President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, Turkey\u2019s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, King Abdullah II of Jordan, and Iran\u2019s new President Masoud Pezeshkian.<\/p>\n

The Iranian leader accused Israel on Monday of seeking a wider war in the Middle East and laying \u201ctraps\u201d to lead his country into a broader conflict. He pointed to the deadly explosions of pagers, walkie-talkies and other electronic devices in Lebanon last week, which he blamed on Israel, and the assassination of Hamas\u2019 political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31, hours after Pezeshkian\u2019s inauguration.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want to fight,\u201d the Iranian president said. \u201cIt\u2019s Israel that wants to drag everyone into war and destabilize the region. \u2026 They are dragging us to a point where we do not wish to go.\u201d Iran supports both Hamas in Gaza and Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah militants.<\/p>\n

International Rescue Committee President David Miliband recalled that at the San Francisco conference in 1945 where the U.N. was established, then-U.S. President Harry Truman pleaded with delegates to reject the premise that \u201cmight makes right\u201d and reverse it to \u201cright makes might,” which was enshrined in the U.N. Charter.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlmost 80 years later, we have seen the terrible consequences of the failure to flip this equation,\u201d Miliband said. \u201cIn contexts like Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine, might is making right.\u201d<\/p>\n

Facing mounting global humanitarian needs, unchecked conflict, unmitigated climate change and growing extreme poverty, Miliband challenged world leaders asking: \u201cHow will you strengthen, not weaken, the principles of the U.N. Charter for the next 80 years?\u201d<\/p>\n

The assembly\u2019s annual meeting, which ends on Sept. 30, followed the two-day Summit of the Future, which adopted a blueprint aimed at bringing the world\u2019s increasing divided nations together to tackle the challenges of the 21st century from conflicts and climate change to artificial intelligence and women’s rights.<\/p>\n

The 42-page \u201cPact for the Future\u201d challenges leaders of the 193 U.N. member nations to turn promises into real actions that make a difference to the lives of the world\u2019s more than 8 billion people.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are here to bring multilateralism back from the brink,\u201d Guterres said.<\/p>\n

By adopting the pact, leaders unlocked the door, he said. \u201cNow it is our common destiny to walk through it. That demands not just agreement, but action.\u201d<\/p>\n

At last year\u2019s U.N. global gathering, Ukraine and its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, took center stage. But as the first anniversary of Hamas\u2019 deadly attack in southern Israel approaches on Oct. 7, the spotlight is certain to be on the war in Gaza and escalating violence across the Israeli-Lebanon border, which is now threatening to spread to the wider Middle East.<\/p>\n

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to speak Thursday morning and Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy will get the spotlight twice. He will speak Tuesday afternoon at a high-level meeting of the U.N. Security Council called by the United States, France, Japan, Malta, South Korea and Britain, whose foreign ministers are expected to attend. He will also address the General Assembly on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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