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The first day of the UN General Assembly portrays a totally polarized world

2020-09-22T13:04:54.365Z


The main global leaders intervene in a virtual meeting marked by the pandemic and the tension between Trump and Xi


The first to speak today will be the Brazilian president, Jail Bolsonaro.

The second, Donald Trump.

Then his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Followed by Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Also from the leader of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin.

The last speeches of the morning (according to local New York time) will be for the Iranian president, Rohan Hassani, and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron.

For six hours, the first debate of the UN General Assembly will give voice to the main

players

of the world geopolitical board;

a table where the multilateral strategy is conspicuous by its absence and that stages the hyper-leadership of some leaders facing each other.

As demonstrated by the continuous tensions between Beijing and Washington, which outline a scenario reminiscent of the Cold War, with Russia as a destabilizing factor in the West;

the Turkish challenge in the eastern Mediterranean;

or the announcement of the US Administration to impose new sanctions on its Iranian enemy.

For the first time in the 75-year history of the UN, world leaders will not see each other live, at the organization's headquarters in New York, but due to the pandemic it will be a succession of previously recorded speeches of a duration maximum of 15 minutes.

This unusual format, which does not give rise to improvisations, will have as one of the main themes the global management of covid-19, a pandemic that has already left almost a million deaths around the planet.

“Climate calamity looms.

Biodiversity is collapsing.

Poverty grows again.

Hate spreads.

Geopolitical tensions are escalating.

Nuclear weapons remain on a sensitive trigger alert.

Technologies have opened up new opportunities, but also new threats.

The covid-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of the world.

We can only face them together, ”said the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, of Portugal, during the opening ceremony in which the 75th anniversary of the multilateral organization was commemorated.

An act to which only one diplomat from each country was allowed to enter, with few journalists who were in the shuttered meeting rooms, the cafeterias closed, without huddles of international delegations in the corridors of this tangle of plants and offices which is the headquarters of the UN, based on the East River in Manhattan.

Source: elparis

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