In Unga DisGair, moments of progress and shared land
For Maimouna Dieye, Minister of Family and Solidarity in Senegal, the annual gathering in New York for hundreds of world leaders and thousands of diplomats at the United Nations revolves around cooperation and dialogue and solving urgent challenges in the world together.
“Like anyone else, I hear about the failure of the United Nations and its importance, but for me, this takes attention away from the important work that happens here,” she says.
Mrs. Die Die just chaired a ministerial conference on women, family and development on Wednesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, known as UNGA, before this reporter presented her ideas.
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The annual United Nations General Assembly draws the usual grumbling on the benefit and focus of such a giant gathering. But a quick look behind the curtain finds cooperation, dialogue and commitment to “a better life for many.”
“In Unga, we share ideas and practices that improved people’s lives in our countries, and over time, exchange leads to a better life for many. This may not be what gets a lot of attention,” she adds, but cooperation and dialogue have an effect. “
Complaints related to the importance of the United Nations, the interest of a giant gathering like Unga, and the influence on excessive focus on a few of the leaders of leaders – the more west, the more common annual observations about the world’s first diplomatic gathering.
This year was not different.
President Donald Trump’s speech on Tuesday, when he mocked multi -party and distorting the main issues on the global agenda from climate change to the plight of the refugee population, moved away from other events in UNGA.
A reference to the feelings of his president, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio did little of his lack of ignorance of the latest Anga when he clarified on Tuesday the United States’s role in the activities of the week on Fox News.
“It is just a place [where] Once a year, a group of people meet and make letters, write a set of messages and data, but there are not many important procedures, “.
However, the UNGA agenda of Mr. Rubio included approximately ten bilateral meetings with leaders and heads of diplomats-including one with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov-a ministerial meeting on Indian and Pacific Maritime Security (China, do you listen?), And a dinner with a trucomomable college.
This was just the US Secretary of State.
At a press conference last week, Stefan Dujarrik, spokesman for the Secretary -General of the United Nations, Wali and Raez, and five prime minister, including 89 heads of state, 43 heads of state, five deputies, five deputies, five deputies, five deputies, five deputies, five deputies, five deputies, five deputies, five deputies, five deputies, five deputies, five deputies, five deputies, five deputies Five representatives of the prime minister, including 89 heads of state, 43 government primees, the Emir, and five deputies. More than 1640 bilateral meetings were to be held to build the General Assembly building alone.
In fact, sometimes a lot of wonderful moments happen without anyone noticing them.
One of them fell on the sidelines of the Unga when the retired Petraeus took an interview with Syrian President Ahmed Al -Shara on stage, a high -level annual dialogue in central Manhattan.
What made the event very amazing is that General Petraeus was leading the American forces in Iraq until the imprisonment of Mr. Al -Sharra when he was a fighter of al -Qaeda there.
“We have moved from the war to the speech,” Mr. Al -Shara told General Petraeus.
The first Syrian president to attend the United Nations gathering in six decades, Mr. Al -Sharra took over due to the relief of sanctions for his country to the United Nations.
He had one of these good and important bilateral meetings “with Minister Rubio.
Syrian Presidential Press Office/AP
It is easy to make fun of UNGA – although New York Certainly no, the event enhances the city’s economy by $ 5 billion – through countless conferences and countless conferences such as Mrs. Dieye that she chairs.
President Trump raises the United Nations for not fulfilling one of its basic tasks, which is to resolve international disputes. But it may be one of Unga’s features that at its best, it has the ability to raise the moments of chance that reveals a common ground among world leaders who seem to use each other.
Mr. Trump admitted that he was suffering from such a moment when he amended his speech in Unga to tell his fans that he was through the scenes paths with Brazilian President Louise Inosio Lula da Silva – and he loved the man immediately.
American relations in Brazil deteriorated sharply during the second term of Mr. Trump and in the wake of the condemnation of former President Gere Bolsonaro, Trump’s friend and ideological hands, by trying to raise a military coup. The United States has slapped the punitive definitions of Brazilian products and imposed sanctions on the judge in the Polsonaro case and his family.
“At least for 39 seconds, we had excellent chemistry,” said Mr. Trump. “It’s a good sign.”
In fact, Mr. Trump said that the meeting had a half-minute agreement by the ideological opposites to meet soon-confirmed a little news, if not for a press conference on Wednesday.
“What seemed impossible, that is now possible,” said the Brazilian leader, adding that the meeting could happen as soon as possible next week.
Notice that had it not been for the opening of the dialogue when Mr. Trump appeared in front of him “very friendly and enjoyable”, “I told President Trump,” We have a lot to talk about, and a lot of common interests … there are no limits to our conversation. “
It was a common ground, found out of courtesy.