Regarding Benin's president's

artappraiser — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:28:51 +0000

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Regarding Benin's president's speech topic, see

Clinton Sees Link to Qaeda Offshoot in Deadly Libya Attack

....Mrs. Clinton made her remarks at a special United Nations meeting on the political and security crisis in the swath of North Africa known as the Maghreb and the Sahel, a crisis that is particularly affecting northern Mali.....

On President Obama's speech

artappraiser — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:22:21 +0000

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On President Obama's speech this morning:

Text of speech @ the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/world/obamas-speech-to-the-united-nati...

Video @ C-Span, 31 minutes:

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Remarkstoth

Summary report @ the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/world/obamas-address-to-united-nations...

Summary report @ UN News Service:

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=42998&Cr=general+debate&Cr1...

On Ban Ki-Moon's opening speech:

Summary report @ NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/world/un-leader-opens-general-assembly...

Summary report @ UN News Service:

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=42984&Cr=general+debate&Cr1...

UN live webcasts available here

http://webtv.un.org/

Reports of other international leaders speeches are already up at UN News Service on their home page:

http://www.un.org/news/

Serbia, Brazil, Benin so far and those are more interesting than one might initially think: for example

Benin’s President today called on the international community to help eliminate the grave threat posed by Islamist militants who have seized control of northern Mali, warning the United Nations that they endanger stability in the whole West African region. “These terrorist movements engage in all sorts of trafficking in drugs, people and all calibre of arms,”....

and

Brazilian President calls for joint efforts to contain consequences of global economic crisis....called on countries to boost international efforts to tackle the global economic crisis, stressing that a balance must be found to stimulate growth while at the same time controlling public spending without resorting to extreme austerity measures. “The grave economic crisis that began in 2008 has taken on new and worrisome contours,” she said. “The choice of orthodox fiscal policies has been worsening the recession in the developed economies, with repercussions for the emerging countries.”....

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