By tradition, Brazil’s up first. Then, it’s Trump followed by Ecuador’s Lenin Moreno, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and a dozen other speakers in today’s morning session.
More to come.
Brazil’s 🇧🇷Temer: graft charges
USA’s 🇺🇸Trump: allies convicted in Russia probe
Ecuador’s 🇪🇨Moreno: arrest warrant on predecessor Correa
Turkey’s 🇹🇷Erdogan: dogged by corruption probe for nearly 5 years
Diplomats mostly standing and walking in the hall.
"Within countries, people are losing faith in the political establishment... Populism is on the march."
"Multilateralism is under fire precisely when we need it most," he said.
Guterres added that "we are moving toward a multipolar world," but that won't necessarily solve problems.
"We must guarantee the implementation of the Paris agreement... but its targets, which represent the bare minimum... are far from being met."
"Welcome to the only place where a meeting of this kind is possible," Garces says.
She pivots to protection of people with disabilities, whom she calls the "planet's largest minority."
"Isolation may even give one a false sense of security at first," he said. "Protectionism may even sound productive."
He talks about promoting dialogue and solidarity.
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"From this wheelchair, I see from the eyes of the heart," he adds later.
"One year ago, I spoke before you in this auditorium for the first time," Trump says, boasting about allegedly accomplishing more in two years than almost any administration.
(Raucous laughter)
Pivots to Syrian civil war and then lays into Iran.
Trump talks about reimposing sanctions in November and promises "more will follow."
Then, he pivots to trade, where he says U.S. is "systematically renegotiating broken and bad trade deals."
"As far as America is concerned," Trump says, the ICC has "no jurisdiction" and "no authority."
"We will never surrender American sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable bureaucracy," he added.
"Not good," he adds.
He talks about the “heart of a patriot” inside people of every nation.
Note: WaPo reported Trump’s archnationalist advisor Stephen Miller wrote this speech.
“Thank you, God bless you and god bless the nations of the world,” Trump concludes.
Applause. Trump steps down from the dais.
The UN makes transcripts of all speeches public. Read Ecuador’s Moreno’s speech, then Trump’s that immediately followed.
Then report the whiplash of that experience back to me.
“We are holding this meeting on the 100th anniversary of the end of the first World War,” he says, speaking of the UN’s genesis from WWII.
“Even if the entire world turns its back, Erdogan says, Turkey will support the side of the “oppressed Palestinians.”
Turkey leads the world in jailing journalists.
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Russia: 0
Climate change: 0
Rohingya / Myanmar: 0
multilateralism: 0
plunder: 2
blood (-y; -thirsty): 2
global (pejoritive): 4
illegal immigration: 2
national interest: 2
terror (-ism, -ists): 6
patriot (-ism): 4
sovereignty: 6