Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with at least 15 leaders and representatives of African countries on Thursday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly gathering in New York.
Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang was notably silent on the ongoing dispute in the South China Sea, instead demanding “developed countries” conform to climate change protocols and asserting “terrorism should not be linked with certain countries, races, or religions.”
President Juan Manuel Santos announced to the audience of the UN General Assembly Wednesday that the government of Colombia and the multi-million-dollar terrorist group FARC had agreed to a deal that would keep most FARC terrorists out of prison, and allow its leaders to found a political party in the country.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi urged Israel to “write a bright page” in Middle East history and make peace with the Palestinians.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will urge world leaders to create “a uniform standard in the war on terrorism,” he said Tuesday before boarding his plane to New York, where he will address the United Nations General Assembly later this week.
When he came to power, he appeared to imply it was one of his priorities. In reality, US President Barack Obama has made less headway than many of his peers trying to achieve Mideast peace.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon used his final address Tuesday to the General Assembly, after ten years in office, to blame Israel for the failed Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Ban said nothing about Palestinian terrorism, war or incitement in his speech.
Donald Trump will meet with Egyptian President Abdel el-Sisi in New York city, say sources close to the Egyptian diplomatic delegation.
New York City officials are expanding police presence around the United Nations complex in anticipation of the General Assembly debate, beginning Tuesday, which is expected to be attended by dozens of world leaders.
The Prime Minister, Theresa May, is set to call for a new approach to managing the global “unmanaged migration” crisis when she appears at her first UN General Assembly in New York on Monday.
No meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been set up at the end of the month at the UN, a senior source in the Prime Minister’s Office said Thursday, following a Channel 1 report to the contrary.
TEL AVIV – Ahead of the two month interregnum following the U.S. elections in November, Israel is confident that any last ditch Mideast effort from President Barack Obama before leaving office will stay true to what he said at the UN in 2011: “Peace will not come through statements and resolutions at the United Nations.”
Muslim prayers on Fridays at the United Nations headquarters in New York have begun taking up a large area next to the General Assembly Hall, shunning a designated ecumenical prayer area.
TEL AVIV – The UN General Assembly adopted six resolutions against Israel in a single day on Tuesday, the NGO UN Watch reported, including a resolution calling for the return of the Golan Heights – together with its current inhabitants –to Syria. No resolutions
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas wants the Oslo Accords to be annulled. We should give him what he wants.
Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told reporters that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must go, siding with President Obama and opposing the official stance of Russia and Iran.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, who represents the nation most vocally opposed to the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, reportedly met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and American President Barack Obama at the UN General Assembly to discuss the Syrian civil war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin described his evening meeting with President Barack Obama as “very constructive” and “surprisingly open.” It was their first formal meeting in two years.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko demanded action from the United Nations in his General Assembly speech today, accusing Russia of “open and unprovoked” aggression against his country.
“Colombia’s conflict is on the path to a genuine solution,” President Juan Manuel Santos told the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday in a celebratory speech announcing the provisional deal the Colombian government reached with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) terror group last week.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi presented a plan Monday afternoon at the UN General Assembly to battle regional extremism.
The Ukraine delegation walked out of today’s UN General Assembly meeting today when Russian President Vladimir Putin took the stage. The two countries have been involved in a war since March 2014, when the Kremlin annexed Crimea and invaded eastern Ukraine.
At the UN General Assembly meeting today, Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed the West for the rise of radical Islamic groups. He also demanded a global alliance to fight these groups.
Iranian regime President Hassan Rouhani addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Monday afternoon, discussing matters such as the Hajj pilgrimage disaster and the Iran nuclear deal.
Pop star artist/producer Pharrell Williams took to the podium of the UN General Assembly Friday to address 1,200 middle-schoolers about the importance of climate change as part of this year’s International Day of Happiness.
