UN General Assembly Debate Live Stream 2015 Info: Vladimir Puntin and other

While noting that the landmark Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) had seen the number of people worldwide living in poverty reduced by half, he said that with the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), however, “we acknowledge that eradicating poverty in all its forms is only possible with a much more complex transformation of the entire global economy, the environment and social structures”.

“There is nothing we can say to the world’s children that can convince them the world needs to be the way it is”, he further said. Jordan borders both Syria and Iraq, and Syrian refugees now make up 20 percent of Jordan’s population. She will be followed by Obama as leader of the host nation.

The European Union last week agreed to inject $1 billion to United Nations relief efforts in Syria’s neighboring countries, but Ban said more should be done to ensure that the migrants are treated with dignity.

The USA president also took jabs at Russian Federation and China, without naming names. And he added in a critique of restrictions on speech, “You can control access to information… but you cannot turn a lie into truth”.

Europe’s worst migration crisis since World War II looms large over this year’s gathering of world leaders as worldwide efforts to end the war in Syria are in disarray.

Ukraine’s table just in front of the speaker’s stand was empty as Putin spoke.

Ban warned that resources to address these crises are dangerously low.

Others speaking Monday included French President Francois Hollande and Cuban President Raul Castro, who also has a meeting planned with Obama.

By tradition, each year, the Secretary-General draws lots to select which among the UN’s 193 Member States will occupy the first seat in the General Assembly Hall throughout the yearlong session, and this year Ban Ki-moon picked Tuvalu, a low-lying developing State of some 11,000 people in the South Pacific whose very existence is under dire threat from rising seas brought on by human-caused climate change.