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War in Ukraine: at the UN, Emmanuel Macron castigates Russian "imperialism"

2022-09-20T21:56:35.481Z


Before the General Assembly, the President of the Republic accused Moscow of "hegemony" with the invasion of Ukraine.


At New York

The fist hammers the desk, its echo resonating on the various channels of simultaneous translation.

Emmanuel Macron addressed the United Nations General Assembly as the sparse ranks revealed some wear and tear after five hours of monologues.

Like his Brazilian counterparts Jair Bolsonaro and Turkish Recep Tayyip Erdogan before him, the French president intends to awaken numb assistance, just as much as the UN in the face of the war in Ukraine.

The tone is fiery, the subject accusatory.

The speech is too long: 32 minutes, instead of the 15 theoretically allocated.

Russia is in the crosshairs of the Elysée tenant who, an hour earlier, on the macadam of 43rd Street, considered

"laughable"

the imminent self-determination referendums (from September 23 to 27) in the territories occupied by the Russian army, these

"imitations of democracy"

whose result will be impossible to recognize.

“I think of those who wrote our charter…

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Source: lefigaro

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