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Updated Saturday, September 19, 2009 11:37 am TWN, By John J. Metzler, Special to The China Post

U.N. Assembly to open amid anxiety and yawns

UNITED NATIONS -- Presidents, Prime Ministers, Dictators and Demagogues are assembling in New York for the 64th annual session of the U.N. General Assembly. Part of the rites of autumn, political leaders and diplomats from the 192 member states have converged for the General Debate which provides a global grandstanding of policy positions, pressing initiatives, floating political trial balloons among the glad-handling which politicos do best. But this year, the setting is different — the debate and discussions take place as the United Nations complex at Turtle Bay on the East River is under total renovation; a construction site not necessarily building world peace but abating asbestos and moving boxes.

Leadoff speakers in the cavernous General Assembly hall, still open for this year, are President Lula da Silva of Brazil, Barack Obama of the USA, and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi of the Libyan Socialist Jamahiriya. Other key figures addressing the assembly on the opening day will the Presidents of the Republic of Korea, France, Mainland China and Russia.

More interestingly Iran's President Mahmoud Admadinejad takes the floor to no doubt attempt to assuage world opinion over his country's nuclear program; it has nothing to do with weapons but everything to do with saving the planet from higher carbon emissions!

Politically high profile dictators and demagogues to descend upon the U.N. for the Assembly session besides Gaddafi and Ahmadinejad include Presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, his sidekick Evo Morales of Bolivia, and Zimbabwe's Comrade Robert Mugabe.

Back bench delegates speaking later in the week include the Foreign Ministers of Belarus, Cuba, and the Burmese military junta. Despite this cast of unsavory characters being allowed to into New York to address the U.N. Assembly, the U.S. State Department sided with left-wing Latin American states, and has venally blocked the visa of Honduran President Roberto Miceletti from visiting New York, over concerns that he was not legitimately elected! Honduras, a longtime American ally, has been crudely shunned.

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