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O

ver recent days,
foreign leaders,
rulers and tyrants
flocked to New York City
for the 76th Session of
the United
Nations General
Assembly,
also known as
UNGA. Did you
listen to their
speeches?
I thought not.
So, it occurred
to me that I should provide
you with the highlights.
Only I couldn’t find any.
So instead, I will treat you
to some lowlights — lies,
evasions, boilerplate and
insults to your intelligence.

Start with Xi Jinping,
president of the People’s
Republic of China, who
pledged “to fight COVID-19
in solidarity” and “always
put people and their lives
first and care about the life
value and dignity of every
individual.”
Those nodding and/
or applauding must know
that Xi has blocked serious
investigations into the
origin and spread of the
virus because such inquiries
would build on the abundant
evidence that Beijing, through
incompetence or worse, let
loose the global pandemic
that has killed millions
of people and devastated

economies around the globe.
Xi’s propagandists have
attempted to convince the
credulous that the altered
virus came from somewhere
else — like, hey, maybe
America! Or Australia!
Nevertheless, Xi wants
you to know he “stands
firmly opposed to political
maneuvering in whatever
form.”
Let’s move on to Sergey
Lavrov, foreign minister
of Russia, which has sliced
territory from neighboring
Georgia and Ukraine while
helping Syrian dictator
Bashar al-Assad slaughter
hundreds of thousands of his
subjects. He assured us that

“threats and challenges can
be countered effectively only
through concerted efforts in
strict compliance with the
universally recognized norms
of the international law,
first and foremost, the goals
and principles of the U.N.
Charter.”
It’s widely believed that the
Kremlin has used chemical
weapons to eliminate critics.
Lavrov’s solution: “We
are awaiting a response to
the Russian initiative to
elaborate a Convention for
the Suppression of Acts of
Chemical and Biological
Terrorism.”
He’s dismayed, also, that
“a number of countries” are

PURELY COMMENTARY

essay
A Litany of Lowlights from the
U.N. General Assembly Session

Clifford D.
May
JNS.org