“We will never surrender America’s sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable, global bureaucracy,” the U.S. president said. But speaker after speaker over the week stressed the importance of global cooperation, starting with French President Emmanuel Macron, a progressive, multilateralist, who told the General Assembly: “Nationalism always leads to defeat.”Canada’s U.N. ADVERTISEMENTChinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov countered that the U.S. should consider matching Kim’s positive steps — including halting nuclear and missile tests and actions to dismantle related facilities — with an easing of sanctions. The shortest was Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaite at 5 minutes, according to Assembly president Espinosa Garces. Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem declared that a victory over “terrorism” is almost at hand and demanded that “occupation” forces from the U.S., France and Turkey leave the country immediately.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 02, 2018 01:30 UTC