UN, applause for Zelensky for the first time in the assembly | Ukrainian leader: "Russia uses food and energy as weapons"

September 19, 2023, 5:39 p.m

Zelensky: “Moscow committed genocide against Ukrainian children.” Biden accuses Russia of not wanting peace in Ukraine. Giorgia Meloni’s speech on Wednesday

Photo gallery – The 78th UN General Assembly in New York

Opening of the meeting U.N. Minister Antonio Guterres warned: “Democracy is in danger, authoritarianism is on the rise. Inequalities are increasing. And hate speech is on the rise. As I said at the G20 summit, it is time for a global compromise.” Then applause for Volodymyr’s speech Zelensky, present at the general meeting for the first time. “Russia has no right to nuclear weapons,” he said, accusing Moscow of “using food and energy prices as a weapon.” “Don’t believe the devil Putin, ask Prigozhin,” he added, stressing that Russians “have no right to have nuclear weapons.”

Russia “uses food prices as a weapon, not only against Ukraine, but also against other countries.” “It is clear that Russia is trying to weaponize food shortages in markets to gain recognition of conquered territories in Ukraine .” Using the same energy, oil and gas strategy to weaken countries.

“Now this threat has become even greater because they are also using nuclear energy as a weapon: look what they did with the bombed and occupied Zaporizhzhia power plant,” he said.

“As Russia pushes the world towards the final war, Ukraine is doing everything to ensure that no one in the world will dare to attack any nation after Russian aggression. The use of weapons must be limited, war crimes must be punished, people must be deported.” must return home and the occupier must return to his own country.

Ukraine is preparing a “world peace summit”. The Ukrainian president announced a peace plan. “I intend to present to the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday details of the formula, which more than 140 states and international organizations have supported in whole or in part,” the Kiev leader said. “The Ukrainian peace formula becomes global. It is able to offer solutions and measures that solve all forms of rearmament that Russia has used against Ukraine and other countries,” he said in the Glass Palace.

Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal, but then “the world decided that Russia should become the guardian of that power. History shows that it was Russia that deserved nuclear disarmament in the 1990s.”

Moscow committed genocide against Ukrainian children “We know the names of tens of thousands of children,” Zelensky said, “and we have evidence of hundreds of thousands more children who were abducted and then deported by Russia in the occupied territories of Ukraine.” The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for these crimes and we are trying to bring the children home. Good. Time passes, what will happen to them?” Zelensky asked himself. “These children are being taught to hate Ukraine and all ties with their families are being severed. This is clearly genocide,” he concluded.

“Politics is compromise, diplomacy is compromise, effective leadership is compromise. Leaders have a responsibility to compromise in building a future of peace and prosperity for our common good,” Guterres added.

This year’s week-long session, the first full meeting of world leaders since the Covid-19 pandemic halted travel, is expected to be attended by 145 leaders. It is a high number that reflects the multitude of ongoing crises and conflicts. But for the first time in years, US President Joe Biden will be the only leader of the five nations with veto power on the United Nations Security Council to address the 193-member assembly.

Meloni: “I will not allow Italy to become an EU refugee camp” “I will not allow Italy to become Europe’s refugee camp,” said Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on the sidelines of the ceremony in which she laid a floral wreath at the Christopher Columbus Monument in New York. “Now we have to declare war on human traffickers,” said the Prime Minister.

Giorgia Meloni’s speech on Wednesday Xi Jinping in China, Vladimir Putin in Russia, Emmanuel Macron in France and Rishi Sunak in Britain will all miss the UN meeting this year. Spotlight on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Biden. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s speech is scheduled for Wednesday evening. The absence of leaders of the four powers on the Security Council has led to complaints from developing countries who want major global players to listen to their demands, including funding, to begin bridging the growing divide between the world’s north and south.

Meloni-Erogan meeting “Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met her Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyp Erdogan on the sidelines of the General Assembly. The meeting took place at the Turkish House, the headquarters of the Turkish diplomatic mission in New York. For Tajani, Turkey is “a NATO country.” which “also has great influence in Africa” and is “the country that is trying to revive the Ukraine-Russia wheat deal.”

Biden attacks Russia and it rains applause Applause erupted in the General Assembly as US President Joe Biden assured the Ukrainian people of his support in their fight for freedom and the integrity of their territory. “Only Russia is responsible for the war, I repeat, only Russia is responsible,” Biden said forcefully as he addressed the hall of world leaders gathered at the United Nations. Biden said that “only Russia stands in the way of peace, because the price of Russia’s peace is the surrender of Ukraine.” The president repeatedly emphasized the need not to violate the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights “as a guiding star to maintain. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also applauded.

“Russia believes that the world will grow tired and allow Ukraine to be brutalized without consequences. But I ask you: If we abandon the basic principles of the UN Charter to appease an aggressor, can a member state be confident that it will be protected? “If we allow Ukraine to be divided, will the independence of any country be guaranteed? The answer is: no. We must oppose this blatant aggression today in order to deter other potential aggressors tomorrow,” said the US President, among other things.

Biden on artificial intelligence: We have to govern it, not the other way around New technologies such as artificial intelligence bring with them enormous opportunities, but also equally great risks. This was said by the President of the United States, Joe Biden. “We must ensure that these technologies do not become tools of oppression: we are working to strengthen regulation and ensure the security of these technologies before they are made available to the public,” he said, adding: “We must be the ones who govern “these technologies and not the others”.

Erdogan criticizes the UN Council: It no longer guarantees security “The United Nations Security Council is no longer a guarantor of global security, but has become the battlefield of the five permanent member states,” said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his speech during the UN General Assembly in New York, Anadolu reported. The Turkish president said structural reforms are necessary in the United Nations. “The world is bigger than just five countries and a fairer world is possible,” Erdogan said, emphasizing that the vision of a “new Turkish century,” announced ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Turkey, “aims to eliminate global injustices and ensuring peace, security and prosperity.”

Erdogan: Terrorism is spreading like an epidemic thanks to new technologies Thanks to the exploitation of technological developments, the areas of operation of terrorist organizations are increasing like an “epidemic”. This was stated by the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “Turkey is fed up with the hypocrisy of those who use the Islamic State and similar groups as a cover for their political and economic interests in the Middle East, North Africa and the Sahel,” Erdogan said.

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