There is widespread speculation that when US president Donald Trump addresses the General Assembly on September 22 –one of the few, or perhaps the only head of state, to do so “in person” in a virtually virus-locked down world body– he may either threaten to pull out of the UN (very unlikely), warn of possible cuts in financial contributions (likely), or downsize the US role in the world body (most likely).īut with a highly unpredictable US president, everything is up in the air.
Helms wanted the “Glass House by the East River” shipped out of New York - for good. UNITED NATIONS, (IPS) - Back in 1998, Senator Jesse Helms, a rightwing Republican from the US state of North Carolina, carried out a virulent one-man hate-campaign against the UN– and its very presence in New York.Ī fulltime chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee– and a part-time UN basher-the late Helms publicly complained that providing funds to the UN is like “pouring money into a rathole”.
The UN says there will be “no marvelling at seemingly endless presidential motorcades on First Avenue and no “standing-room only” moments in the gilded General Assembly Hall, as the Organization’s busiest time of the year is reimagined in the time of COVID-19. The annual high-level sessions, with mostly pre-recorded video speeches, begin September 22. World leaders have been urged to stay home in the first “virtual” UN General Assembly sessions in the 75-year history of the United Nations.
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