World leaders meet with multiple crises on agenda at United Nations

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World leaders meet with multiple crises on agenda(at United Nations)
9/23/14

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Facing a world in turmoil from multiple crises ranging from wars in the Mideast and Africa to the deadly scourge of Ebola and growing Islamic radicalism, leaders from more than 140 countries open their annual meeting at the United Nations on Wednesday with few solutions.

The issue certain to top the agenda is the threat from Islamic terrorists intent on erasing borders, with the first U.S. and Arab airstrikes in Syria delivered Monday night in response.

Many diplomats hope that crisis won't drown out the plight of millions of civilians caught in conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Ukraine and Gaza; the misery of the largest number of refugees since World War II; and global support for new U.N. goals to fight poverty and address climate change.

Looking at the array of complex challenges, Norway's Foreign Minister Borge Brende told The Associated Press: "It's unprecedented in decades, that's for sure."

He pointed to an unprecedented situation in which the U.N. and international donors are confronting four top-level humanitarian crises at the same time in Iraq, Central African Republic, South Sudan and Syria, which is now in the fourth year of a civil war which the U.N. says has killed more than 190,000 people

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who will deliver his state of the world report at Wednesday's opening of the General Assembly ministerial session, gave a bleak preview to reporters last week: The world is facing "multiple crises," with all featuring attacks on civilians and having dangerous sectarian, ethnic or tribal dimensions.

In addition to the major conflicts, Ban said the world must not forget the continuing violence in Mali, the volatile situation in and around Ukraine, the chaos in Libya, the greater polarization between Israelis and Palestinians following the recent devastating war, and the advances of Boko Haram in Nigeria which "grow more alarming every day."

The secretary-general said he will call on world leaders to unite to uphold human dignity and the rule of law.

Soon after, U.S. President Barack Obama will step to the podium, and he is certain to dwell on the terrorist threat. Rights groups have called for him to explain how the campaign against the Islamic State extremist group is in accordance with international law.

Obama also will chair a Security Council meeting later Wednesday at which members are expected to adopt a resolution that would require all countries to prevent the recruitment and transport of foreign fighters preparing to join terrorist groups such as the Islamic State.

The opening of the annual U.N. meeting, which ends Sept. 30, follows the highest-level meeting ever on climate change, with some 120 world leaders responding to the secretary-general's call for increased political momentum to address the warming planet.

"For all the immediate challenges that we gather to address this week — terrorism, instability, inequality, disease — there's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate," Obama said.

But Obama, along with China, the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter, said he would not propose targets to reduce carbon pollution beyond 2020 until early next year. The summit also exposed longstanding political divisions between rich and poor countries, raising questions about whether a new climate pact will be reached by the end of 2015.

Such divisions on a wide range of issues are certain to be addressed in the week ahead. This year's VIPs include Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, French President Francois Hollande, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

Two prominent no-shows are Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf because of the Ebola crisis that has hit her country hardest and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who gave no public reason.

While the assembly's newly renovated chamber will be the scene of constant speech-making, most of the real "business" during the General Assembly takes place in private meetings and dinners. This year's side events cover a number of crisis countries including Iran, South Sudan, Myanmar, Yemen and Somalia, with a recently added high-level meeting on Ebola.

Iyad Madani, secretary general of the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation, said there are "a multiplicity of crises" that are unpredictable, but "I think we are relatively a more peaceful world than in World War I, II, Korea, Vietnam or the Cold War."

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GLOBAL POWER ELITES MEET TODAY FOR HISTORIC 70TH UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Geoffrey Grider | September 28, 2015 | 7 Comments
IN GEOPOLITICS, THIS IS THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH. FOR THE BEST PART OF A WEEK, THE WORLD’S LEADERS – MORE THAN 150 OF THEM – WILL MINGLE, BARGAIN AND ARGUE OVER THE STATE OF THE WORLD AT THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN NEW YORK.

“And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.” Jeremiah 25:13 (KJV)

EDITOR’S NOTE: In the Bible, all the nations gathering together is never a good thing. The Bible says that in the end of times all the nations of the world, united in purpose, will band together and come against Israel. At which point God Himself steps in to fight for His chosen people the Jews. Think about that as you listen to all the world’s leaders uniting this week to discuss how best to govern our global, one world society. The leader that the Bible says all the world will follow just might be getting ready to step out from the shadows.

For much of the proceedings, “show” is the operative word. When the presidents and prime ministers mount the green marble podium, there will be a strong element of theatre. They will be playing to different galleries, declaiming their positions to their peers in the chamber, but also to domestic audiences.

The drama will be greater than ever this year, at the 70th session of the UN General Assembly, known inside the institution by its acronym UNGA (rhyming with hunger). Within the space of two hours on Monday morning, Presidents Barack Obama, Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Hassan Rouhani and François Hollande will take their turn to speak. Each will try to anticipate and respond to the other, seeking rhetorical advantage and one-upmanship in their claims to global leadership. The global balance of power will be laid out in the open.

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The leaders will huddle on Sunday to discuss climate change and global development goals. They will discuss the future of UN peacekeeping on Monday, with several countries pledging troops to the task, and on Tuesday, debate strategies of defeating the Islamic State and other violent extremists.

The greatest wild card this year will be Putin. It will be the first time he has shown up to talk at UNGA for a decade, and he flies to New York at a critical time. While he has eased the pressure on Ukraine, dialling down Russia’s covert military campaign alongside the separatists in the east, Putin at the same time has raised his country’s stakes in Syria in support of Bashar al-Assad, setting up an air base in Latakia and consolidating Russia’s hold on a naval base at Tartus.

In so doing, he has backed up by force of arms the argument he has been trying to win since the war started more than four years, and 250,000 lives, ago: that the only road to peace is through support for Assad and a concerted campaign against ISIS.

Obama will be co-hosting a summit meeting on countering ISIS starting on Tuesday morning. Putin is not expected to attend, as he seeking to claim his own leadership of the anti-ISIS campaign.

That will be the state of play when Obama meets Putin on Monday afternoon, at what is likely to be the most critical summit of the week. The president will be seeking assurances of Russian agreement to a relatively brisk abdication by Assad (months rather than years) in return for legitimising the Russian boots-on-the-ground campaign in Syria. But right now, those are assurances Putin seems in no mood to give.

The symbolic highlight of the UN General Assembly in 2013 was a phone conversation between Obama and Rouhani as the latter was in his car heading to the airport. Two years on, US-Iranian exchanges are now routine. A deal on the future of Iran’s nuclear programme was finally clinched in July, and in getting there the US secretary of state, John Kerry, and his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, spent more time in each other’s company than any other two foreign ministers on earth.

On Monday, Zarif will be meeting ministers from the six nations who negotiated the nuclear agreement, in order to discuss its implementation. But the White House has said there is still no meeting expected between Obama and Rouhani this year. Rouhani told National Public Radio that Iran was ready to start discussing Syria with the US “right now” but a personal encounter has not been approved by Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. The nuclear agreement has yet to have a diplomatic domino effect. Iran and the US remain far apart on each other’s role in the Middle East. Iran has reportedly not been invited to Obama’s summit on countering Isis.

The White House says, however, that the president will have a brief meeting with Raùl Castro, who will be addressing the general assembly for the first time on Monday afternoon. Obama met the Cuban leader at the Summit of the Americas in Panama in April, and Kerry went to Havana to reopen the US embassy in August, ending a 54-year break in relations. source

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OBAMA AT UN CALLS OUT ‘NON-MUSLIM IGNORANCE’ THAT EQUATES ISLAM WITH TERROR
Geoffrey Grider | September 28, 2015 | 11 Comments

INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT WHILE BIBLE PROPHECY CLEARLY MENTIONS RUSSIA, IRAN AND CHINA, THE WORLD’S GREATEST SUPERPOWER AMERICA GETS NO MENTION AT ALL.

Russia has set up military bases in Syria, and Iran is fighting Israel by proxy with Hamas, but Obama still has time to call for support for the “religion of peace” Islam. He said there must be a “rejection by non-Muslims of the ignorance that equates Islam with terrorism.” Sorry, Barry, but it is intelligence and discernment that equates Islam with terrorism, not “ignorance”. He also went on to say that America is increasing the amount of Muslim migrants we are planning on taking in.

Then, while criticising Russia for violating Syria’s sovereignty by coming in and setting up a military presence, Obama then called for “regime change” by “removing Assad from power” in order to “set up a new government”. Lol, so he is not actually against violating any nation’s sovereignty so long as he is the one who gets to do the violating.

REGIME CHANGE IN SYRIA NOW REQUIRES RUSSIA’S PERMISSION OR IT WILL NOT HAPPEN

What he failed to mention was that under his leadership, America is being badly outmaneuvered by a rising, aggressive Russia, and that Vladimir Putin is beating him at every turn. The entire balance of power in the Middle East is now shifting, primarily due to the newly-formed axis of power by Russia, Iran and China. The world needs to come to grips with the sobering thought that Russia, and not America, is now in charge of the Middle East. Obama had every minute of the last 2 and a half years to do something about Syria, and because he did nothing, Russia has now stepped in and taken control.

Interesting to note that while Bible prophecy clearly mentions Russia, Iran and China, the world’s greatest superpower America gets no mention at all. I think we are beginning to see one of the reasons for that. Perhaps God has allowed Barack Obama to be be president of America to bring that to come to pass. Certainly starting to look that way.

We will continue to bring you meaningful updates of all the shenanigans at the United Nations this week as they occur, so stay tuned…

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