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Nasrallah: Stronger Dead than Alive
- Inter Press Service
ATLANTA, USA, Oct 01 (IPS) - There is no question that Hassan Nasrallah was a powerful orator. He could hold millions of followers in rapt attention—even adoration—through his deep voice, logic, passion, and wit.
Will the UN's Pact of The Future Modernize the World's Outdated Multilateral Systems?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 30 (IPS) - While most world leaders who attended the United Nations inaugural Summit of the Future—a two-day high-level event at UN headquarters in New York meant to address the most pressing global challenges of the 21st century—agree that the world's aging multilateral system needs modernizing, not all agree on how to get there.
UN Assembly President calls for global unity as high-level debate concludes
- UN News
The President of the General Assembly on Monday reminded UN Member States that the Organization’s strength “lies in our diversity” and ability to unite around common goals, as the curtains drew on the 79th session’s high-level debate.
Syrian Minister denounces Israel for its ‘seven-decade-long criminal record’
- UN News
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Syria, Bassam Sabbagh, on Monday said the world was at a critical juncture, marked by widespread conflict, economic hardship and environmental degradation.
Terrorists and their foreign sponsors, though ‘weakened’ still pose a threat, Mali minister warns
- UN News
The Deputy Prime Minister of Mali outlined on Saturday the steps the Government has taken to rebuild trust among the country’s diverse communities and push back against terrorism, but he warned that “opportunistic’ terrorist groups, and their foreign sponsors threatened toundo this work.
Saudi Arabia promotes ‘appeasement and development’ in the Middle East and beyond
- UN News
The Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia highlighted the country’s work to support peace efforts in the region and beyond in his address to the UN General Assembly on Saturday.
As challenges mount across the globe, ‘the world needs the UN’, Egypt says
- UN News
Egypt’s Foreign Affairs Minister Badr Ahmed Mohamed Abdelatty said it is time to “ring the alarm bells” as the international system is currently showing its structural shortcomings that come from ineffectiveness, double standards and inequality at a time of occupation, hunger, terrorism and injustice. Sketching out a path forward, he first stressed that there is no alternative to the multilateral system.
Indian minister says ‘we can change the world for the better’
- UN News
India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said the world stands fractious, polarized and frustrated amid war, unfair trade practices, climate change and food and health insecurity. Trust has eroded, processes have broken down and countries have extracted more from the international system than they have put in it, enfeebling it along the way.
Violations of UN Charter and international law now ‘facts of life’, Cuban Foreign Minister says
- UN News
The Foreign Minister of Cuba expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people, and highlighted global challenges such as wealth inequality, climate financing and debt relief, in his speech to the UN General Assembly on Saturday.
Attempt to defeat Russia a ‘suicidal escapade’, Lavrov warns Ukraine and the West
- UN News
Ukraine’s hope of defeating Russia on the battlefield is senseless given that Moscow holds nuclear weapons and any effort by the NATO alliance to keep aiding Kyiv will prove to be a “suicidal escapade”, Russia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs told the UN General Assembly on Saturday.
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