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UNITED NATIONS – Latest news from the United Nations General Assembly (local):
9:35 p.m.
The foreign ministers of Russia, Turkey and Iran discussed Syria's political future – while Western countries hold parallel meetings on the same subject.
Russia's Sergei Lavrov, Turkey's Mevlut Cavusoglu and Iran's Javad Zarif met on Wednesday on the sidelines of the US General Assembly. Lavrov called it a "good" meeting but gave no details.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said it has discussed de-escalation efforts around the last bastion of Idlib's Syrian rebels and "prospects for launching a truly sustainable process of political settlement".
The United States, France and other allies are holding a separate meeting Thursday in the United States on next steps for Syria.
The Russian delegation also met with Staffan de Mistura, the US envoy for Syria, who urges the launch of a constitutional committee for Syria as early as next month.
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8:15 p.m.
The Venezuelan president tells his counterparts that he opposes the actions of US President Donald Trump against his government and says that "illegal unilateral sanctions" are part of a US harassment tactic that insists that "the orders are respected.
Nicolas Maduro spent most of his speech on Wednesday evening at the US General Assembly rejoicing that the Venezuelan leader is calling for unjust and imperialist policies and practices. He said that Trump's speech to the General Assembly on more one-sided policies, the first in America, was "a threat."
Maduro's defeat is in New York during a surprise visit to the United States. He said he came to defend his country after other US sanctions were imposed at the beginning of the week.
His speech came the same day that six countries, including five from Latin America, asked the International Criminal Court to investigate Maduro, accused of crimes against humanity.
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7:55 p.m.
Jacinda Ardern knows how to juggle her role as a mother with the demands of her job.
The New Zealand Prime Minister has taken his granddaughter to the annual gathering of United Nations leaders. Mother and daughter were seen together in the meeting room.
She says she is a breastfeeding mother and she has to keep her daughter nearby.
In discussing his situation on Wednesday, Ardern said, "I combine my role as a mother and a leader and it is quite possible to do both. She comes to the functions with me. So politicians like to hold babies. "
Baby Neve was born in June.
Ardern giving birth during his tenure was a point of contention before the elections. Television presenters asked her about her plans for children and she said she was happy to talk about it, even though she added that it was basically an unacceptable question for women in the workplace .
His responses have resonated with many people around the world.
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7:45 p.m.
The German Foreign Minister rejected US President Donald Trump's claim that Germany would become "totally dependent on Russian energy" unless it canceled a gas pipeline project to Russia.
Heiko Maas told reporters in New York on Wednesday that Trump's comments "do not correspond to reality".
Asked about the laughter of his delegation when Trump spoke on Tuesday about the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project at the US General Assembly, Maas said the surprise may be due to diplomats' lack of surprise. German.
He said that Germany "would not tire of countering with real facts and noting that this is not a political project but mostly economic".
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7:35 p.m.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he wants to "break mutual mistrust" with North Korea and meet his leader, Kim Jong Un.
Abe reaffirmed Wednesday his support for the diplomatic relations of President Donald Trump with the North Korean autocrat.
Trump met Kim in June and plans a second summit. Abe told reporters, "Then it's my turn."
But Abe added that no meeting had yet been decided and that any meeting would aim to help settle cases of Japanese nationals kidnapped by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s.
Abe is a foreigner among the great powers of Northeast Asia, having not met Kim this year. The leaders of South Korea and China have done so many times.
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7:25 p.m.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the United States had agreed not to impose tariffs that had been threatened on Japanese automobiles during their negotiations on a trade deal.
The threat of so-called Article 232 tariffs on automobiles would have exacerbated trade tensions that have increased since President Donald Trump came to power in an attempt to reduce the US trade deficit with Japan.
Abe insisted that the negotiations would lead to a trade agreement on goods and would be different from Japan's comprehensive free trade agreements.
Japanese officials said past agreements also covered the rules on services and trade.
Abe predicted that this would boost trade and investment between the United States and Japan, the world's first and third economies.
He spoke at a press conference after meeting Trump in New York on the sidelines of the US General Assembly.
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6:25 p.m.
It was a very different speech in Zimbabwe at the world leaders' rally, held this year after the fall of Robert Mugabe, who has long been the source of tirades against Western powers.
New President Emmerson Mnangagwa was a former Mugabe official, but now he sees himself as a reformer and says his country is eager to play a role as a "responsible member of the family of nations".
Mnangagwa briefly called Wednesday for the immediate and unconditional elimination of "continuing illegal sanctions" as he badly needed foreign investment in Zimbabwe's long-broken economy. He himself remains a target of US sanctions for alleged rights violations.
But while Mugabe could be counted on every year for an explosion in the United States and others on perceived interference, Mnangagwa stood for peace, unity and tolerance. "
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6:15 p.m.
Russia is providing wide-ranging support to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who is at risk of suffering US military action and pressuring the international community to abandon the spiral of the crisis.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met on Wednesday with Maduro on the sidelines of the US General Assembly. Lavrov said after "we are ready to offer comprehensive assistance for all your plans," according to Russian news agencies.
Lavrov said the two countries are preparing an intergovernmental meeting on trade and economic cooperation.
He also conveyed the "best wishes" of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Maduro came to the United States to "defend his country" when six countries accused him of crimes against humanity and that US President Donald Trump had suggested taking strong action.
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6:05 p.m.
President Donald Trump defends nuclear diplomacy with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
He told reporters on Wednesday that he did not give up anything except his time at a summit in June in Singapore, and that he was still at the crossroads of the denuclearization of the North.
Trump says he believes Kim "wants to do it" but that he will have no time limit at the moment. There is widespread skepticism about Kim's wishes at the Singapore summit to abandon his nuclear weapons and diplomacy is at a standstill.
Trump also said that former President Barack Obama told Trump he was "very close" to going to war with the North. Trump says that if he had not been elected, there would have been a war.
Last year, many feared the war during a threat exchange between Trump and Kim as the North Koreans held a series of increasingly powerful weapons tests.
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5:40 p.m.
President Donald Trump insists that he has evidence that China is trying to meddle with the mid-term US elections.
At a press conference in New York on Wednesday, a reporter asked Trump what evidence he had to support the accusation, which China denied.
He says that he can not disclose the evidence he has, but that it will come out. He says his allegations are not "out of nowhere".
The Trump government said China is stepping up its secret and open activities to stifle freedom of expression, punish those who support the president's tough trade stance against China and ingest it into the American political system.
The administration says China is hurting farmers and workers in Trump-friendly states and districts.
According to Trump, China has "admitted that it is attacking farmers."
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5:40 p.m.
How much do you pay for a cup of coffee?
The President of Honduras took the opportunity to lobby coffee growers around the world and call for a multinational effort to stop farming and provide better wages to producers.
Noting that a cup of coffee in New York may cost $ 5 or more, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez suggested that people in the room who drink coffee could participate in a "huge injustice".
He defended the small producers in Honduras who earn only a few cents for every cup of coffee sold abroad "for their work under the sun and rain, by picking up every bean in the hand".
He suggested a customs union facilitating "trade with justice and equity". Honduras is the fifth largest coffee producer in the world.
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5:25 p.m.
The Kenyan president has been criticized for widespread corruption in the East African economic center, but has blamed the corruption of a "globalized financial and legal system".
President Uhuru Kenyatta told a rally of world leaders that the "trust deficit is increasing" with governments as the free press and social media share the news of the fraud.
He says Africa has lost trillions of dollars in illicit outflows in recent decades, but warns that "the irony of the situation is that what is being done to Africa is finally done to the rest of the world. ".
Earlier this year, 18 Western countries, including the United States, urged Kenya to take strong action against corruption after the revelation of scandals in several ministries.
Kenyatta at the time promised "that there will be no mercy for the thieves". He declared corruption a threat to national security in 2015.
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5:10 p.m.
The Ukrainian President took advantage of his speech to world leaders at the United States General Assembly to urge Russia to urge the international community to "take care of them".
Petro Poroshenko spent most of his speech on Wednesday to his country's powerful neighbor, who annexed the Crimea region in 2014 and supports separatists fighting against Ukrainian forces in the east of the country. The conflict killed more than 10,000 people.
Poroshenko says nothing will stop what he calls Russia's "aggressive expansionary policies" unless the nations of the world unite to confront its leaders.
He says, "It's up to us to take care of them. If not, what is our idea of being here?
The US Security Council has discussed the situation in Ukraine, but Russia has the right of veto to block any potential action against it.
Russia has not yet spoken at the assembly for a week. It denies any direct involvement in the Ukrainian conflict and accuses Ukraine and its Western supporters of fomenting violence.
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4:50 p.m.
One of the few countries to have full diplomatic relations with the island of Taiwan demands that it be more included in the country's activities.
The king of the tiny African nation of Eswatini, Mswati III, said in his address at the United Nations General Assembly that Taiwan, also known as the Republic of China, should "have the opportunity to participate in the United Nations system for development ". He said the experience of Taiwan "would contribute greatly to contribute to the UN".
Such instances are unusual. Fewer than 20 countries have full diplomatic relations with Taiwan. Most of the others have relations with the People's Republic of China, led by the Chinese Communist Party in the capital, Beijing.
China and Taiwan split in 1949 into a civil war and Beijing considers the island part of its sovereign territory even if Taiwan operates under its own elected government. In recent years, China has used financial and investment incentives to get other nations to abandon their relations with Taipei and to establish links with Beijing.
Eswatini changed its name this year from Swaziland. It is the last ally of Taiwan in Africa, a continent where China has invested a lot in recent years.
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3:55
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani calls the withdrawal of the United States from the Iranian nuclear deal "a mistake" and says that sooner or later the United States will support this decision again.
He said at a press conference on Wednesday that Iran did not want to wage war with US forces in the Middle East, saying, "We do not want to attack them. We do not want to increase tensions. "
US Mr Rouhani said that the US withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal had isolated the United States and not Iran.
He said that the United States would come back because nobody benefits from the current situation.
Rouhani said the Trump administration's second mistake was a Wednesday meeting of a US Security Council meeting chaired by Trump, where all the participants, with the exception of the United States, directly or indirectly supported the deal. Iranian nuclear power.
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3:40 p.m.
The Italian populist leader stresses the importance of "shared responsibility" between countries in dealing with migrants.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte made the remarks Wednesday in his address to world leaders at the United Nations. His words come two days after Rome intensified its crackdown on migrants seeking asylum.
Mr Conte said that the issue of migrants requires a short, medium and long term response from the international community as a whole.
Mr Conte said host countries should work with migrants' countries of origin and transit to stem the flow of migrants. And he reiterated Italy's support for a global pact to promote safe and orderly migration and reduce trafficking and smuggling.
Last year, some 600,000 migrants landed in Italian ports after being rescued at sea by human traffickers launched from Libya. Most asked for asylum.
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15:30.
Afghanistan's chief executive told world leaders that his country had "turned the page" towards peace last year and asked for their help to achieve "a new phase without violence" in a torn country by the conflict since the 1970s.
Speaking Wednesday at the United States General Assembly, Abdullah Abdullah discussed developments, including the Taliban's participation in a brief ceasefire in June.
He said Afghans "are safe for anyone" and seek to "play a constructive and collaborative role" at the regional level.
The US envoy to Afghanistan recently said that the country has been in the best position since 2001 to begin a process leading to peace talks with Taliban militants.
Yet this year's attacks have highlighted the difficulties faced by Afghan forces in fighting the Taliban and a subsidiary of the Islamic State.
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3:20 p.m.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he refused the invitation of the US cultural agency to attend a conference on anti-Semitism, complaining of his "bias" against Israel.
Netanyahu's office issued a statement on Wednesday denying UNESCO's Paris-based bid while attending the UN General Assembly in New York.
According to the statement, "since 2009, UNESCO has adopted 71 resolutions condemning Israel and only two resolutions condemning all the other countries combined". He says, "If UNESCO wants to remove this mark of shame, it must do more than host a conference on anti-Semitism. It must stop practicing anti-Semitism."
Israel has long complained of anti-Israeli prejudices in the United States, where Israel and its allies are largely outnumbered by Arab countries and their supporters.
The recent resolutions of the organization shocked many Israelis who saw them as a decrease in the deep ties between Jews in Jerusalem and the biblical city of Hebron.
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2:35 p.m.
British Prime Minister Theresa May told world leaders that Russia has "openly" violated international standards, from seizure of territory to the use of a chemical weapon to poison a former Russian spy in England.
Mr. May spoke Wednesday at the annual meeting of the United States General Assembly. Russia has not yet spoken.
The British authorities have accused two men suspected of being Russian military intelligence agents of using a nerve agent to try to kill former spy Sergei Skripal in March in Salisbury. A British woman was killed and Skripal and her daughter were seriously ill.
Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted that there was "nothing criminal" about the two men. In an interview with state-funded Russian television, they traveled to Salisbury to see its famous cathedral.
Mai also defended international cooperation, despite her country's decision in 2016 to leave the European Union. She said the so-called vote on "Brexit" "was not a rejection of multilateralism" but rather a "call for decisions and accountability closer to home".
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2:20 p.m.
Former international football star George Weah delivered his first speech to the United Nations as Liberia's leader, saying "the challenges of leadership are enormous."
FIFA's 1995 player of the year became president of the impoverished West African nation in January, despite some skepticism about his political abilities.
He is now under pressure for justice for the victims of consecutive civil wars.
Weah told the General Assembly Wednesday that Liberia would begin a series of national peace dialogues so that "we do not repeat the costly mistakes of the past".
He gave no details. An open letter to Weah released last week by dozens of local and international rights groups says Liberia "has not yet asked a single person to report on past abuses."
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2:05 p.m.
The President of South Korea boasts of the "miraculous" peace movements that have unfolded in recent months on the Korean Peninsula as negotiators attempt to resolve the decades-long nuclear standoff with North Korea.
Moon Jae-in told the United States General Assembly that he had both a "sense of urgency and excitement" about diplomacy that "removed the shadow of war."
Moon has met three times this year with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The President of the United States, Donald Trump, met in June Kim and they are trying to set up another summit.
Moon praised Trump and Kim's "courage" and called on the international community to "respond positively" to Kim's denuclearization commitments.
In the midst of diplomacy, there is widespread skepticism that Kim will actually give up the expensive weapons that Pyongyang sees as a guarantee of security.
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said he arrived in New York for a meeting of the UN General Assembly, where his government was sharply criticized.
Maduro appeared on state television on the air on Wednesday, saying he was ready to defend his country.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, said earlier in the day that he was ready to meet Maduro if it could help relieve the suffering of the South American nation.
Several Latin American countries and Canada have asked the International Criminal Court to investigate the Venezuelan government for alleged crimes against humanity.
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1:20 p.m.
The UN Secretary General attributes the lack of leadership to the world's failure to make tough decisions to end climate change.
Antonio Guterres bluntly told New York leaders on Wednesday that unless current trends in greenhouse gas emissions are reversed by 2020, it will be impossible to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit).
The target was set in the 2015 Paris climate agreement, but the United States said the commitments made by the government only reach one-third of the cuts needed.
Guterres said, "We are still lacking strong leadership to make the bold decisions needed to put our economies and societies on the road to low-carbon growth and resilience to climate change."
He called for an end to fossil fuel subsidies, a shift to renewable energies and realistic carbon pricing.
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13h
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warns that the dismantling of the Iranian nuclear deal would threaten global efforts to end North Korea's nuclear program.
Lavrov and others defended the 2015 Iran deal at a US Security Council meeting Wednesday on nonproliferation chaired by US President Donald Trump .
Trump pulled the United States out of the deal, saying it was not tough enough for Iran, and began imposing new sanctions.
Lavrov said the dismantling of the agreement would release new tensions in the Middle East and "would be counter-productive for ongoing efforts to denuclearize the Korean peninsula. These efforts are something we welcome and support. "
He said Russia was working with China and its European partners on ways to preserve the agreement over Iran despite the withdrawal of the United States.
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12:40
The Iranian foreign minister is calling for the reimposition of US sanctions that followed the US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from a multinational nuclear deal with Iran, an act of "unprecedented revenge".
Mohammad Javad Zarif made the remarks Wednesday at a side event on the elimination of nuclear weapons at the US General Assembly.
Zarif issued a statement calling for the withdrawal of the United States from the "illegal and unjustified" nuclear deal. He also criticized Trump for pushing modern nuclear weapons even further.
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12:35
With US President Donald Trump listening, Bolivian President Evo Morales attacked the United States and accused the Trump administration of interfering in Iran and Venezuela.
Morales also said that the US government has shown "contempt" for multilateralism and has no interest in defending democracy.
Trump was chairing a meeting of the US Security Council on Wednesday when Morales said that if the United States defended democracy, "they would not have financed coups and supported dictators" or threatened democratically elected governments.
He also accused the United States of not caring about human rights or justice, citing the promotion of the use of torture and the separation of migrant parents and children in cages.
Trump made no comment when Morales finished and called the next speaker, the vice president of Côte d'Ivoire.
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24:30
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo plans to visit North Korea next month for talks aimed at boosting the diplomacy of nuclear disarmament and holding a second summit between leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump.
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert made the announcement on Wednesday after Pompeo met with North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho at US General Assembly meetings in New York. York.
The statement said Kim invited Pompeo to come "to advance the implementation" of the agreements reached at Kim's June meeting with Trump in Singapore.
There has been a stalemate since the June summit and South Korea and other countries hope that another Trump-Kim summit could advance nuclear disarmament efforts. Many are skeptical about Kim's sincerity in disarming.
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12:20
The Yemeni President calls on the international community to pressure Iran to stop its interference in the internal affairs of its country.
President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi told the US General Assembly in New York on Wednesday that Iran and the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon were supporting Shia rebels in Yemen, known as the Houthis.
He says Iran has financed and provided the Houthis with "weapons, missiles and experts".
Iran has repeatedly denied such accusations.
He also blames the rebels for the failure of the US-led peace talks.
The civil war that began in March 2015 pits the Iranian-backed Houthis against a Saudi-led coalition that supports the country's internationally recognized government.
The war killed at least 10,000 people and devastated Yemen, turning it into the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.
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24:15
The Chinese Foreign Minister says that his country has nothing to do with interference in the internal affairs of another nation. The comments were made at a meeting of the United States Security Council after US President Donald Trump accused the Chinese of stealing from the United States. "trying to ingest" in the 2018 US elections.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the Chinese "do not interfere or interfere" in the internal affairs of a country. He also said he refused to accept "unjustified accusations" against China.
After chairing his first meeting of the Security Council, Trump told world leaders that "unfortunately" his government had found that China was trying to interfere. Trump says it's because he's the first president to ever challenge China in trade.
Wang stared at the stone face as Trump made his statement.
China's long-standing policy, repeatedly stated over the years, is an interference in the internal affairs of other nations – and it is quick to cite this belief without regard to the nation as political.
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12:05
Six pays des Amériques ont déclaré qu’ils demandaient à la Cour pénale internationale d’enquêter sur le gouvernement vénézuélien pour des crimes présumés contre l’humanité. This is the first time that member countries have sent another country to the US court based in the Netherlands.
L’Argentine, le Pérou, la Colombie, le Chili, le Paraguay et le Canada ont fait l’annonce en marge de la réunion de l’Assemblée générale des États-Unis.
Le tribunal a déjà ouvert une enquête préliminaire sur des allégations selon lesquelles, depuis avril 2017, les forces gouvernementales vénézuéliennes «ont eu recours à une force excessive pour disperser et réprimer des manifestations» et ont insulté certains membres de l'opposition en détention.
La décision prise mercredi pourrait élargir la portée de l’enquête préliminaire existante. Les pays accusent le Venezuela de plusieurs crimes dont le meurtre, la torture et l'emprisonnement injuste.
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11:35
Le secrétaire d’Etat américain, Mike Pompeo, a déclaré que sa rencontre avec le ministre nord-coréen des Affaires étrangères, Ri Yong Ho, était «très positive».
Pompeo a fait ce commentaire sur Twitter mercredi après avoir rencontré Ri à l'Assemblée générale des Etats-Unis. La réunion intervient alors que le président des États-Unis, Donald Trump, et le dirigeant nord-coréen, Kim Jong Un, travaillent à mettre en place un deuxième sommet largement attendu pour relancer la diplomatie bloquée destinée à débarrasser le Nord de ses armes nucléaires.
Pompeo a déclaré que «beaucoup de travail reste à faire, mais nous continuerons à avancer».
Kim a prononcé des vœux de dénucléarisation la semaine dernière lors d’un sommet avec le président sud-coréen à Pyongyang, mais son sincère ambition de renoncer à des armes reste la seule garantie majeure de son régime autoritaire.
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11:25
Le président du Liban accuse la communauté internationale de faire deux fois plus que le Moyen-Orient.
Dans son allocution aux leaders mondiaux mercredi au Royaume-Uni, le président Michel Aoun a critiqué la décision de l’administration Trump de reconnaître Jérusalem et la capitale israélienne tout en coupant l’aide aux Palestiniens et à l’agence américaine pour les réfugiés palestiniens.
Aoun a déclaré que «l'histoire nous a appris que l'injustice mène à la guerre. … L'absence de justice peut mener à la violence et au terrorisme. "
Il a ajouté: «Malheureusement, les approches politiques internationales au Moyen-Orient manquent toujours de justice et il y a deux poids deux mesures à cet égard. La question palestinienne en est un exemple.
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11:20
Le premier ministre canadien Justin Trudeau défend la Cour pénale internationale après avoir été attaqué par le président américain Donald Trump.
Trudeau dit que le Canada continue de croire que le tribunal basé à La Haye est «un moyen utile et important de promouvoir une ordonnance internationale fondée sur des règles».
Le Canada devrait se joindre à cinq nations sud-américaines en signant une demande officielle mercredi pour que la CPI enquête sur le gouvernement vénézuélien de Nicolas Maduro. C’est la première fois que le Canada cherche à renvoyer un autre pays devant ce tribunal.
Trudeau a déclaré aux journalistes que le Canada utilise tous les moyens possibles pour remédier à la situation «catastrophique» au Venezuela, notamment par le biais de la CPI.
Trump a déclaré aux Etats-Unis mardi qu’en ce qui concerne l’Amérique, «la CPI n’a aucune juridiction, aucune légitimité et aucune autorité».
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10:55
En réponse directe au président américain Donald Trump, la ministre suédoise des Affaires étrangères, Margot Wallstrom, a déclaré que le «patriotisme» n’était pas la solution au programme nucléaire de Téhéran. Et elle dit que son pays soutiendra le soutien de l’Union européenne à l’accord nucléaire iranien que Trump a abandonné.
Trump a déclaré mardi à l’Assemblée générale des Etats-Unis que «l’Amérique est gouvernée par des Américains. We reject the ideology of globalism and we adopt the doctrine of patriotism.
Mercredi, il a présidé une réunion du Conseil de sécurité des États-Unis sur la non-prolifération.
En anticipation de cette réunion, Wallstrom a posé comme hypothèse: «Quelle est l’alternative à l’accord avec l’Iran?
Dans ses mots, «nous avons essayé des sanctions au fil des ans. Nous avons essayé de nous isoler et cela n'a donné que plus de pouvoir aux forces les plus conservatrices d'Iran », a-t-elle déclaré.
Wallstrom a déclaré que l'UE travaillait sur la mise en place d'une facilité financière qui aiderait les entreprises à faire des affaires avec l'Iran après l'imposition de sanctions par les États-Unis.
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10h15
Le président du Ghana défend les investissements massifs de la Chine à travers l’Afrique face aux inquiétudes concernant une possible «recolonisation du continent africain par une nouvelle puissance».
La présidente Nana Akufo-Addo a déclaré: «Il est évident pour nous que la trajectoire de développement sur laquelle nous travaillons depuis plusieurs décennies ne fonctionne pas».
Il ajoute: «Nous en essayons un autre et nous apprécierions le soutien et la bonne volonté du monde.»
S'exprimant mercredi devant l'Assemblée générale des États-Unis, il a présenté la vision d'une Afrique au-delà de l'aide.
Le Ghana possède l’une des économies les plus dynamiques en Afrique. Les Etats-Unis et d’autres ont exprimé leur inquiétude quant au fait que les prêts chinois accordés aux pays africains pour des projets d’infrastructure piègent les pays endettés.
Le dirigeant du Ghana a répondu que «les pays riches et bien établis effectuaient des visites régulières en Chine».
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La deuxième journée de discours des dirigeants du monde à l’ONU a commencé avec plus d’appels en faveur du multilatéralisme.
Le président namibien, Hage G. Geinob, a déclaré mercredi qu’il était alarmé de voir le monde dériver «de manière toujours plus inquiétante vers une action unilatérale», ce qui va à l’encontre des principes fondamentaux de la démocratie.
Il a ajouté que "la démocratie (…) est de loin le meilleur système qui permet les valeurs clés des Nations Unies, nécessaires pour un développement inclusif durable". Il a ajouté: " contre l'action unilatérale. "
Il a également salué le discours d’ouverture prononcé lundi par le secrétaire général américain Antonio Guterres, qui a mis en garde contre la montée de la polarisation et du populisme.
Plus tôt, le président panaméen, Juan Carlos Varela, a déclaré que les pays devaient travailler ensemble pour endiguer les mouvements migratoires qui «ne peuvent être résolus que par la suppression des causes profondes qui les poussent à quitter leur pays».
The speeches praising multilateralism run counter to the theme being pushed by U.S. President Donald Trump, who openly scorned the idea of “globalism” and has been touted his “America First” agenda.
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8 a.m.
More world leaders are stepping up to the podium at the U.N. General Assembly, but the lion’s share of the day’s attention will be down the hall where U.S. President Donald Trump will be chairing the Security Council.
It’ll be Trump’s first experience in leading a session of the U.N.’s most powerful body, where the U.S. currently holds the rotating presidency. It’s using that perch to double down on criticism of Iran.
While Wednesday’s meeting of the council will be addressing the issue of nonproliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, Trump himself has left little doubt that it’ll be another chance to target Tehran.
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