Messy, troubled, unpredictable: Diplomats describe a world in turmoil as UN opens annual meeting
The United Nations General Assembly is opening its annual meeting amid significant global instability. Diplomats and world leaders characterize the current state of the world as being in massive turmoil. Key challenges include two escalating wars and a lack of international consensus on major issues.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — There is not much that diplomats can agree on these days. But if asked about the state of the world ahead of the annual meeting at the U.N. General Assembly, heads of state and government and ministers alike will describe a globe in massive turmoil. With two escalating wars raging in...
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