President Trump spoke briefly and eloquently against China at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, highlighting the differences between the nations of the world amid calls for unity on the Coronavirus crisis that has led to the annual gathering. Changed to virtual session.
The president called on the World Health
Organization to hold China accountable for the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic
and attacked the World Health Organization for its involvement in the crisis
with Beijing.
"The United Nations should hold China
accountable for its actions," Trump said in a pre-recorded remarks from
the White House.
His remarks were immediately denied’ by
China's envoy to the United States, Zhang Jun, who dismissed the
"baseless" allegations and argued, "not to spread any political
virus".
Zhang was one of the few American
delegates to sit in a socially far-fetched fashion in the largely empty General
Assembly Hall at the World Bank's headquarters in New York. Re-recorded remarks
by several world leaders played on the big screens in the hall.
In his opening remarks, UN
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the podium was told’ that
"COVID-19 epidemics have exceeded our annual meeting of recognition"
and that the World Health Organization There is a "fundamental
moment" in responding to the crisis, the recession and growing threats to
human rights.
"In an interconnected world, now is
the time to recognize a simple fact: solidarity is self-interest," he
said. "If we fail to understand this fact, everyone loses."
The Secretary-General also warned of
tensions between the United States and China, saying, "we are moving in a
very dangerous direction. Our world cannot afford a future where two great
economies divide the world into one great dissolution." Have access to
your business and financial laws and the Internet and artificial intelligence
capabilities. "
Chinese President Xi Jinping, in a
previously recorded remarks to the body called for an end to tensions with the
US president.
"We must see each other as members of
the same large family, co-operate in victory and not fall into the trap of
'clash of civilizations' over ideological conflicts," he said.
French President Emmanuel Macron has
criticized the Trump administration's "maximum pressure campaign" on
sanctions on Tehran and allies have distanced themselves from the United
States over its policies on Iran.
Macron rejected efforts to re-impose US
sanctions despite pulling out of the joint comprehensive plan.
"The strategy of increasing pressure
in recent years has not made it possible to end Iran's destabilization
activities," Macron said.
He added: "That is why France,
together with its German and British partners, will continue to demand full
implementation of the 2015 Vienna Agreement and will not accept violations by
Iran. Will. "
Trump announced last week that he was
imposing sanctions on Iran in an attempt to block the October arms embargo on
Iran under the JCPOA.
Macron on Tuesday called for an
international response to Iran's ballistic missile activities and its
destabilizing actions in the region.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, in his
remarks in the General Assembly left the United States behind and rejected the
Trump administration's sanctions campaign.
"The United States cannot impose
negotiations or war on us," he said.
Trump's recent mediation of official
diplomatic relations between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain also
drew a response from world leaders.
Brazil's right-wing and People's
Republican president Jair Bolsonaro hailed the agreements as "the best
news."
Bolsonaro, who is often compared’ to Trump
for his actions and hyperbole and attacked the media in his own statement in
the General Assembly called the president's "peace and prosperity
plans" for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Continuing his
support behind Features an associated vision for conflict resolution ".
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has
made critical remarks, criticizing Trump's peace proposal, saying the so-called
Century Agreement is a "surrender document" for the Palestinians and
a "dirty hand" for Israel to reach Jerusalem. "
Tuesday marked the first full day of the
Virtual Forum, which will continue on Wednesday, but it had very few theatrical
styles or live crowd reactions that explained the previous sessions.
At the time, technical difficulties had
temporarily eliminated Bolsenaro's comments, and his video was blacked out’
before it could be’ resumed. The rest of the day went by without any major
technology hiccups.
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