The UN General Assembly Wednesday hosted a high-level summit calling for an end to the long and bloody Syrian war and to recover the value of diplomacy, despite recent tensions between the US and Russia.
"Present in this hall today are representatives of governments that have ignored, facilitated, funded, participated in or even planned and carried out atrocities inflicted by all sides of the Syria conflict against Syrian civilians," said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in front of 193 participating nations.
He has also accused the Syrian government of killing innocent civilians during the brutal Syrian war and said "powerful patrons that keep feeding the war machine also have blood on their hands."
As the half-century tradition, Brazil spoke first at the UNGA. However, when Michel Temer started to talk, some Latin American delegations decided to leave the room.
While President Michel Temer made his UNGA debut, this was the last time US President Barack Obama, who will leave office in January 2017, addressed the UN as the US president.
Like Ban, Obama said "there's no ultimate military victory to be won" in the Syria conflict, instead "the hard work of diplomacy" is needed to end the violence.
However, the US leader accused Russia of trying to recover "lost glory through force."
Obama cautioned that "if Russia continues to interfere in the affairs of its neighbors," such actions will "make its borders less secure."
French President Francois Hollande, also asked that those intervening in the Syrian war reaffirm their commitment to peace, telling the UN "enough is enough."
Theresa May, Britain's new prime minister in her first speech before the UNGA, called for international efforts to end the Syrian war.
Source: EFE
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