United Nations headquarters in New York. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
More than 130 heads of state are due to start speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday. There is no specific debate about the 30-month-old Syria conflict at but it will be raised by nearly everyone who speaks.
A picture of US President Obama shaking hands with his Iranian counterpart Rowhani would flash around the world- if it happens.
Special ministerial meetings will be held on the sidelines of the General Assembly on the decades’ old strife in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
A visa application to the US government by Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on genocide charges, caused diplomatic panic in Washington and at the UN. The US administration is refusing to say whether it will carry out an ICC request.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 24th, 2013.
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