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Monday 18 SepteMber 2017
World leaders face crises in North Korea and Myanmar at UN

Continued from Front While Trump has an- extremists in the vast Sahel deal. ideas contained in this doc-
nounced that the United region. Trump has also been criti- ument are important and
While Trump’s speeches States will pull out of the A side event Wednesday cal of the United Nations look similar to what the sec-
and meetings will be close- 2015 Paris Climate Agree- on “Preventing Terrorist and has promised to cut retary-general proposes,”
ly followed, it will be North ment, Macron will be host- Use of the Internet” will be the U.S. contribution to its U.N. reforms should result
Korea, which Secretary- from negotiations among
General Antonio Guterres all countries instead of from
calls “the most dangerous “a declaration of like-mind-
crisis that we face today,” ed countries.
that will be most carefully ”The Security Council is
watched. No official event holding a high-level meet-
addressing Pyongyang’s ing Wednesday on U.N.
relentless campaign to peacekeeping operations,
develop nuclear weap- which cost nearly $8 billion
ons capable of hitting the a year.
United States is on the U.N. The United States, which
agenda, but it is expected pays over 28 percent of the
to be the No. 1 issue for peacekeeping budget, is
most leaders. reviewing all the missions in
Not far behind will be the an effort to cut costs and
plight of Myanmar’s Rohing- make them more effective.
ya Muslims, victims of what While there are many side
Guterres calls a campaign events on other global hot-
of ethnic cleansing that spots from Central African
has driven nearly 400,000 Republic and South Sudan
to flee to Bangladesh in to Libya, Mail and Somalia,
the past three weeks. The the ministerial meeting will
Security Council, in its first also see sessions on achiev-
statement on Myanmar in Dump trucks full of sand are lined up along 5th Ave. in front of Trump Tower in New York Sunday, ing U.N. goals for 2030 to
nine years, condemned Sept. 17, 2017. World leaders gather at the United Nations starting Monday. U.S. President Donald end extreme poverty and
the violence and called Trump and France’s new leader, Emmanuel Macron will both be making their first appearance at preserve the planet, wom-
for immediate steps to end the General Assembly. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) en’s economic empower-
it. British Foreign Secretary ment, migration and con-
Boris Johnson is hosting a ing a meeting Tuesday to attended by senior repre- budget, which is the larg- flict prevention — a top
closed meeting on the crisis spur its implementation. sentatives of major social est. So some diplomats priority of the secretary-
Monday, and the Organi- And a late addition to the media companies. Co- were surprised that the Unit- general.
zation of Islamic Coopera- hundreds of official meet- hosts Britain, France and ed States would sponsor an Germany’s U.N. Ambassa-
tion’s contact group on the ings and side events dur- Italy said a global response event Monday on reform- dor Christoph Heusgen said
Rohingyas is scheduled to ing the ministerial week is a is needed “to make the ing the 193-member world the most important thing
meet Tuesday. high-level session Monday online space a hostile envi- body. about the General As-
Guterres said leaders would on the devastation caused ronment for terrorists.” Trump and Guterres will sembly ministerial session,
also be focusing on a third by Hurricane Irma. Trump has accused Iran of speak, and the United which officially begins Tues-
major threat — climate Several terrorism-related supporting terrorists and is States has asked all coun- day and ends Sept. 25, is
change. events are on the agenda. threatening to rip up the tries to sign a declaration the opportunity for leaders
The number of natural disas- Macron is holding a meet- 2015 deal to rein in its nu- on U.N. reforms. to talk one-on-one or get
ters has nearly quadrupled ing Monday with leaders clear program. Over 100 have added their together in groups.
and he pointed to unprec- of five African nations — With a U.S. decision due names, but Russia’s U.N. “I think this is indeed the Su-
edented weather events in Mali, Mauritania, Niger, in October, ministers from Ambassador Vassily Ne- per Bowl,” he said.
recent weeks from Texas, Burkina Faso and Chad — the six parties to the agree- benzia said Friday that “we “If it didn’t exist, one had to
Florida and the Caribbean that are putting together a ment are expected to are not sure we will sign this create this opportunity so
to Bangladesh, India, Ne- 5,000-strong force to fight meet next week. The five declaration.” that can people can talk
pal and Sierra Leone. the growing threat from others strongly support the He said that while “lots of to each other.”q

Trump mocks North Korea leader as ‘Rocket Man’

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE gaining table, though the General Assembly, Trump’s Asked about Trump’s de- the president has said he’s
Associated Press president’s envoy to the biggest moment on the scription of Kim, national not going to tolerate this re-
SOMERSET, N.J. (AP) — United Nations said the Se- world stage since his inau- security adviser H.R. Mc- gime threatening the Unit-
President Donald Trump on curity Council had “pretty guration in January. Master said “Rocket Man” ed States and our citizens
Sunday mocked the leader much exhausted” all its op- Trump is scheduled to ad- was “a new one and I think with a nuclear weapon.”
of nuclear-armed North tions. dress the world body, maybe for the president.” Some doubt that Kim would
Korea as “Rocket Man” Kim Jong Un has pledged which he has criticized as But, he said, “that’s where ever agree to surrender his
while White House advis- to continue the North’s pro- weak and incompetent, on the rockets are coming arsenal.
ers said the isolated nation grams, saying his country is Tuesday. Trump, who spent from. Rockets, though, “I think that North Korea is
would face destruction un- nearing its goal of “equilib- the weekend at his New we ought to probably not not going to give up its pro-
less it shelves its weapons rium” in military force with Jersey golf club, tweeted laugh too much about be- gram with nothing on the
programs and bellicose the United States. that he and South Korean cause they do represent a table,” said Democratic
threats. North Korea will be high on President Moon Jae-in dis- great threat to all.” Sen. Dianne Feinstein of
Trump’s chief diplomat the agenda for world lead- cussed North Korea during McMcaster said Kim is “go- California, a member of
held out hope the North ers this coming week at the their latest telephone con- ing to have to give up his the Senate Intelligence
would return to the bar- annual meeting of the U.N. versation Saturday. nuclear weapons because Committee.q