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"The planet is on fire, but almost all the firefighters have deserted. At the
meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, which began on September 19 in
New York, the leaders of four of the five permanent members of the Security
Council – the UN’s most powerful executive body – were absent.
The absence of the top representatives of France, the United Kingdom, Russia
and China, replaced by ministers or diplomats, demonstrated the emptying of the
main global multilateral forum and highlighted the speeches of the two
presidents who opened the General Assembly: Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
and the US’s Joe Biden.
Both leaders, with decades of experience, referred bluntly to fires that are
ravaging the planet - starting with the climate emergency and the war in
Ukraine. And both, albeit in very different tones, pointed the finger at the
central issue hanging over the meeting, which the absentees made clear: the
crisis of the UN and the multilateral system that has been built around it in
recent decades."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
