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Ukraine’s leader takes UN to task as ‘retired superhero’
AP ^ | 23 September 2021 | JENNIFER PELTZ

Posted on 09/23/2021 3:04:41 AM PDT by blueplum

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Leaders who are “playing” at unity and stuffing pressing problems into an overflowing bag of woe. A world that’s in the same boat, but first-class passengers get the lifeboats. A United Nations that resembles ”a retired superhero” that has lost sight of what it used to be.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy certainly wasn’t the only world leader at this week’s U.N. General Assembly meeting to paint a dire picture of international relations. But the former actor and comedian may well have painted the most colorful one.

In a speech Wednesday, he called out failures in areas from sharing coronavirus vaccines to halting climate change to turning back Russia’s annexation of part of his country. He floated a proposal for the U.N. to head to global hotspots to hold its meetings — and offered to host one....

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: eu; generalassembly; ukraine; un
well, this is going splendidly ...
1 posted on 09/23/2021 3:04:41 AM PDT by blueplum
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