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9 mins ago

Biden returns to UN as world grapples with Putin's latest provocations on Ukraine war

By Kevin Liptack

United States President Joe Biden disembarks Air Force One at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on September 20, 2022. Biden arrived in New York to attend the 77th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.

(Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

President Joe Biden returns to the United Nations stage on Wednesday, ready to tout renewed American leadership on Ukraine and the environment, even as the combined effects of protracted conflict and economic uncertainty create a somber mood among leaders. global.

Injecting new urgency into Biden's comments is Russia's President Vladimir Putin's announcement that he is ordering a "partial mobilization" of Russian citizens in the Ukraine war and has again raised the specter of the use of nuclear weapons.

Biden's second address to the United Nations General Assembly is a moment to herald the US-led effort to back Ukraine and punish Russia for its invasion, along with a historic new investment in fighting climate change.

After making his first UN speech last year under the cloud of a messy withdrawal from Afghanistan and stalled domestic ambitions, Biden enters his second outing with a stronger hand.

Still, even as Biden heralds renewed leadership in the US, deeper questions linger about his ability to hold that position for years to come, as the specter of a global recession looms and threats to the economy fester. American democracy.

Biden has spent a lot of time highlighting those threats in recent weeks, mostly to a domestic audience, but with foreign capitals also listening carefully.

She has recounted in recent speeches sitting around a table at last year's Group of 7 summit in Cornwall, England, telling fellow leaders that "America is back."

28 mins ago

The speeches expected this Wednesday at the UN

By CNN in Spanish

This Wednesday speeches are expected from the president of the United States, Joe Biden, who will speak in the morning instead of occupying the traditional second position of the United States after Brazil this Tuesday.

Ukraine's President Volodomyr Zelensky, the only leader to do so via the Internet, is also expected to speak over the war in his country.

For Latin America and the Caribbean, speeches are expected from presidents and leaders of Ecuador, Costa Rica, Dominica, Cuba and Costa Rica.

These speeches are expected today.

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Muhammadu Buhari, President of Nigeria

Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, President of Iran.

Khurelsukh Ukhnaa, President of Mongolia.

Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda.

Šefik Džaferović, President of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Chandrikapersad Santokhi, President of Suriname.

Joe Biden, President of the United States.

Egils Levits, President of Latvia.

Guillermo Lasso Mendoza, constitutional president of Ecuador

Hakainde Hichilema, President of Zambia

Andry Nirina Rajoelina, President of Madagascar

Mohamed Younis Menfi, President of Libya

Maia Sandu, President of Moldova

Hage Geingob, President of Namibia

Borut Pahor, President of Slovenia

William Samoei Ruto, President of Kenya

Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of Gabon

Mohamed Irfaan Ali, President of Guyana

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Katalin Novák, President of Hungary

Alassane Ouattara, President of the Ivory Coast

Julius Maada Bio, President of Sierra Leone

Alar Karis, President of Estonia

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana

José Maria Pereira Neves, President of Cape Verde

King Mswati III, King of Swaziland

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine

Aleksandar Vučić, President of Serbia

Prince Albert II of Monaco

Charles Angelo Savarin, President of Dominica

Elizabeth Truss, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Mohammad Najib Azmi Mikati, President of the Lebanese Council of Ministers

Bruno Rodríguez, Foreign Minister of Cuba

Jan Lipavský, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic

Naledi Pandor, Minister for International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa

Roberto Álvarez Gil, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic

Arnoldo André-Tinoco, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica

Gustav Aitaro, Foreign Minister of Palau

46 mins ago

World leaders meet at the UN on the war in Ukraine and climate change

By CNN in Spanish

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a press conference in Islamabad on September 9, 2022. Credit: GHULAM RASOOL/AFP via Getty Images

Leaders of the 193 member countries of the UN meet in New York to participate in the general debate and discuss issues of global interest.

This year, after two years of virtual speeches due to the covid-19 pandemic, world leaders unite around major crises in the world.

The invasion of Ukraine, a member country of the UN, by Russia, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, has been present in the speeches of several world leaders at the 77th session of the UN General Assembly.

"The General Assembly is meeting at a time of great danger," UN Secretary Antonio Guterres said at a news conference last week.

"The geostrategic gaps are the widest since at least the Cold War. They are paralyzing the global response to the dramatic challenges we face."

And the climate crisis has also been another key issue at the UN.

“We are headed for a climate disaster.

I recently saw it with my own eyes in Pakistan, where a third of the country has been submerged by a monsoon of unrestrained fury.

We are seeing it everywhere,” Guterres said.

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