Antonio Guterres

“A world of prohibition, where violations and abuses threaten the foundations of international law and the Charter of the United Nations. The level of freedom in the world is politically and morally intolerable.” The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, said this at the debate of the 79th General Assembly. “We see this moment of impasse everywhere: in the Middle East, in central Europe, in the Horn of Africa and beyond – he said – The war in Ukraine spread with no sign of abating.”

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Guterres emphasized “First of all, the state of our world is unstable, we cannot continue like this. And secondly, the challenges we face are solvable. But this requires us to ensure that international methods of problem solving solve the problems. The summit is the first step, but we still have a long way to go.”

the UN secretary insists that “to get there we have to face three main factors in terms of instability: a world of prohibition, a world of inequality, in which injustice and crimes threaten countries to weaken or even push them over the edge, and a world of uncertainty, where uncontrollable global risks threaten our future in unknown ways.

Erdogan again compares Netanyahu to Hitler

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan again compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler in his speech to the UN General Assembly.

“Just as the humanitarian alliance stopped Hitler 70 years ago, the humanitarian alliance must stop Netanyahu and his assassination network,” he said today.

Erdogan: ‘Not only children are dying in Gaza but also the United Nations system’

“Because of the Israeli attack, Gaza has become the world’s biggest graveyard for women and children. But it’s not just children who are dying in Gaza, the United Nations system is also dying The values ​​that the West claims to protect are dying, the truth is dying, the hope of humanity to live in a more just world is dying.”

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said this at the United Nations General Assembly. “The images of Israeli prisons that have turned into concentration camps show what kind of barbarism we are facing,” he said. Erdogan called the Palestinian effort to protect themselves from violence “noble.” .

Ukraine and the Middle East

“The world must choose whether to support Ukraine or turn away from that aggression: my answer is that we will not end our support for Kiev.” Joe Biden said this in his last speech as US president at the UN general assembly.

A diplomatic solution is still possible in the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, he said, stressing at the same time that “together we must ensure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon”:

‘We are at a turning point’

“We are at a turning point, the choices we make today will determine the future. ” This is the message Joe Biden sent to world leaders in his fourth and final speech at the UN General Assembly.

“This is my fourth and last speech here, I know many people look at the world today and see problems but they don’t,” Biden explained, adding: “I know that many people look at the world today with problems: the situations in Ukraine, in Gaza, Sudan and beyond, terrorism, wars, brutality, the climate crisis, democracies in danger, the promise of artificial intelligence and its dangers, but perhaps because I look back over the decades I have hope.”

Biden ‘Putin’s War Has Failed’

“Putin’s war has failed,” Biden said in his final speech as US president at the UN general assembly, referring to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Biden: ‘It’s Time to End the Gaza Ceasefire Agreement’

“It’s time to end the cease-fire agreement and bring the enemies home, who didn’t ask for this war started by Hamas.”

American President Joe Biden said this while speaking at the UN, repeating that the solution is two states for Israelis and Palestinians.

‘A third of poor countries are worse off’

“For all its dangers, the Cold War had rules. There were hot lines, red lines and guardrails. It may seem like we don’t have them today, and we don’t even have a unipolar world. multilateral world, but we are not there yet, we are in a purgatory of polarities”, said Guterres, according to whom “in this purgatory, more and more countries are filling the fields of geopolitical divisions, making the they want no responsibility”.

“If we look at the 75 poorest countries in the world, a third of them are today in a worse situation than they were five years ago. In the same period, the five richest men have ‘planet has more than doubled its fortune,’ he said. The Secretary General of the UN, explains that “1% of the world’s population owns 43% of the world’s financial assets. in health, education and social protection”.

‘Prevent Lebanon from becoming another Gaza’

The hall of the United Nations General Assembly praised Guterres again and again when he spoke about Gaza and the suffering of the Palestinian people.

“Gaza is a permanent nightmare that threatens to take the whole region with it,” said Guterres, who again condemned the Hamas attack on October 7. “The people of Lebanon, the people of Israel cannot and the people of the world will pay for Lebanon to become another Gaza,” he said, arguing that “the international community must move for an immediate ceasefire, immediate release and allow spread unconditionally. and the beginning of an irreversible process towards a two-state solution,” he said.

“Let’s be clear – Guterres said then – nothing can justify the heinous acts committed by Hamas on October 7, or the taking of hostages, which I have condemned again and again. The pace and scale of the killing and destruction in Gaza is unprecedented in my years as UN Secretary-General.”