Lebanon needs more development aid — Salam to UN

He said China “will continue to increase investment in the least developed countries“, and support global institutions, including the Beijing-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank that is due to launch by the end of the year and is seen as a Chinese alternative to the more Western-oriented financial institutions of the World Bank.

President Barack Obama addresses the 2015 Sustainable Development…

He told delegates that 800 million men, women and children scrape by on less than $1.25 a day and that billions of people are at risk of dying from preventable diseases. He called it a “moral outrage” many children are just a mosquito bite away from death. It will be their first face-to-face encounter in almost a year.

President Barack Obama, accompanied by United Nations…

Even in the face of ongoing crises – including armed clashes in Syria, Iraq and Ukraine, as well as the pervasive threat of terrorist activity by Islamic State and other extremists – this is a moment of modest triumph for Obama.

Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam on Saturday asked for more development aid from the global community during his remarks before worldwide leaders at the 2015 Sustainable Development Summit.

Obama is scheduled to address world leaders earlier Monday. Obama meets today with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who hasn’t shown up to the United Nations meeting for a decade.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Sunday, September 27, 2015, in New York.

Iran’s president said in his address that the recent deal with world powers on its nuclear program “has created suitable conditions for regional and worldwide cooperation”, including on protecting the environment. “I think we have concerns about how we’re going to go forward, but that’s precisely what we’re meeting on to talk about now”.

Rouhani arrived Saturday and immediately was encouraged by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to have Iran step up to help achieve political settlements to the grinding conflicts in Syria and Yemen, where Iran has influence.

President Xi Jinping (shee jihn-peeng) made the pledge at a United Nations global summit that has set new sweeping, but non-binding, development goals for the next 15 years.

President Dilma Rousseff, of Brazil, looks over the General…

And the current refugee and migrant crisis, the worst since World War II, is another top issue under feverish discussion.