U.N. General Assembly

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague will begin consideration Monday of a host of proposed penalties the United Nation can implement against countries that defy diktats on protecting the environment.

Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Valdrack Ludwing Jaentschke declared that Nicaragua is “one” with other rogue regimes around the world such as Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, and China in his ideological speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday morning.

The Iran-backed dictatorship of Bashar Assad in Syria was the first state to address the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, using the opportunity to mourn the head of the Iran-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ Al Sudani warned the United Nations in his General Assembly address on Thursday that the world faces a new wave of “occupation,” “terrorism,” and flagrant violations of international law, notably omitting mention of the Iran-backed jihadist terror groups wreaking havoc in his country and region.

The de jure leader of Yemen, President Rashad Mohammed al-Alimi of the “Presidential Leadership Council,” reproached the United Nations and greater international community for abandoning his administration in its decade-old civil war against Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in his address to the General Assembly on Monday.

The Venezuelan Transport Ministry suspended flights to and from Chile indefinitely on Wednesday, shortly after that nation’s leftist president, Gabriel Boric, condemned the Venezuelan socialist regime at the U.N. General Assembly.

Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Yván Gil spoke at the United Nations on Wednesday, accusing Israel – with the “complicity” of the United States and the European Union – of “the greatest crime of extermination and genocide since the one committed by Hitler.”

President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa abruptly canceled his address to the United Nations General Assembly, scheduled for Wednesday, to return home in response to raging forest fires in the capital city of Quito.

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, offered the U.N. General Assembly a succinct speech on Tuesday comprised of two parts: a victory lap on the overwhelming success of his campaign against criminal gangs, and a warning from “a friend” that the current trajectory of the Western world will lead to a “new dark ages of humanity.”

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called for increased international effort to combat human trafficking networks engaging in child sex slavery and other forms of human bondage during her address at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.

Argentine President Javier Milei used his debut speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to deliver an enthusiastic condemnation of “globalism and the moral posturing of the woke agenda” and warn that the U.N. flagship Agenda 2030 is a threat to global freedom.

King Abdullah II of Jordan rejected at the U.N. the possibility of Jordan taking in Palestinians fleeing war.

Leftist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defended the censorship of anti-globalists at the U.N. General Assembly.

With only three months left in office, President Joe Biden will make his farewell address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday morning.

Monday marked the eve of the United Nations’ General Assembly’s “general debate,” a unique global event in which the world’s heads of government descend on New York City and receive a platform to discuss any topic of their choosing.

The United Nations General Assembly, the body featuring all member states, overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Tuesday demanding Israel halt its war against the genocidal terrorist organization Hamas – and rejected two proposed amendments to condemn the terrorists.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian threatened further attacks against the United States and its interests at the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York on Thursday.

The Canadian ambassador to the United Nations, Bob Rae, represented his country at the General Assembly on Tuesday with a speech urging countries to “end systemic racism,” “walk the path towards reconciliation with Indigenous peoples,” and “protect and promote” LGBTQ2IA+ individuals.

North Korea’s ambassador to the U.N. blames U.S. “hysteria” for driving the Korean Peninsula to “the brink of nuclear war.”

Indian External Relations Minister S. Jaishankar declared during his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that “the days when a few nations set the agenda and expected others to fall in line are over,” positioning India as a top role model for the developing world.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the U.N. General Assembly on Saturday that “a new world order is being born right before our eyes.”

Chinese Vice President Han Zheng promised the United Nations General Assembly during his address on Thursday afternoon that his Communist Party would never practice “hegemony and expansion” and promote dialogue and peace – before threatening the nation of Taiwan with the “firm resolve, strong will, and the power of the Chinese people.”

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas unsurprisingly devoted much of his U.N. General Assembly address to denouncing the “Israeli occupation of our territory” and demanding more international pressure against Israel to make concessions.

A group of largely Hispanic protesters organized a peaceful demonstration on Tuesday against the presence of delegations from the communist regimes of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua in New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly.

Chinese media accused Joe Biden of “hijacking” the United Nations General Assembly with “cliché, hollow proposals.”

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni criticized the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday for hypocrisy on the issue of mass migration, charging open-borders advocates with spreading “chaos,” making human traffickers rich, and bringing the evil of slavery back into the world.

Far-left President Gabriel Boric of Chile used his platform at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday afternoon to denounce the communist regime of Nicaragua’s human rights abuses — while at the same time making calls to lift sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela.

Outgoing conservative President Guillermo Lasso of Ecuador used his address at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday to ask the world to help his country house Venezuelan migrants.

President Yoon Suk-yeol of South Korea stressed economic development, climate change, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and North Korean missiles at the U.N.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s achingly long and rambling address to the U.N. General Assembly began with a lengthy sermon on the Muslim holy book, which eventually built up to him calling for action against Quran-burning by citizens of free nations. 

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio used his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday night to invite North Korea’s communist dictator Kim Jong-un to meet “face to face” without preconditions.

Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, used his U.N. address to assert his country’s “right to be correct” on how to fight gangs.

Colombian far-left President Gustavo Petro used his time at the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to proclaim that the “times of extinction” have begun and predict that billions of migrants will soon join a climate “exodus.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky took and left the stage at the U.N. General Assembly in New York to thunderous applause on Tuesday.

Turkish Islamist strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan used his address before the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to renew his calls for expanding Security Council membership, claim that his country had “actually fought the biggest battle against ISIS,” and politely suggest to genocidal China to recognize the rights of its Muslim population.

Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, used most of his address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Tuesday for boilerplate about sustainable development, rising levels of income inequality, and calls for other nations to resolve their differences through negotiation rather than war.