The Lead
Wield the Peace Mandate Worldwide During This Week’s High-Profile UN Events
by Marcia Merry Baker (EIRNS) — Sep. 21, 2024
The week of high-profile events in and around New York involving heads of state and government, and others, at the United Nations has already begun. The UN General Assembly General Debate of spokesmen for 134 nations will run Tuesday, Sept. 24 through Sept. 30. The UN’s pre-programmed Summit for the Future runs Sept. 22-23. The UN Security Council has three special sessions.
Sideline sessions include special BRICS meetings, including for energy and foreign policy. The Group of 20 convenes for the first time alongside the UNGA. Today in Delaware, national leaders of India, Japan, Australia, and the U.S. met for the Quad.
Whatever the topic of the meetings or rank of the participants in and around New York, the top of the agenda of the world remains taking emergency action for security, which means de-escalating warfare and the danger of nuclear obliteration.
This peace mandate has been the focus of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) for 68 weekly meetings. The last session on Sept. 20 had more than 1,000 live viewers and thousands since then, attending to the dialogue in order to know the situation and confer on what can be done.
In the United States, participants in the IPC are directly involved in New York events this week to stop the nuclear war drive. On Saturday, Sept. 28, in Kingston, New York, 95 miles north of New York City, is the demonstration promoted by Scott Ritter, who addressed the Sept. 20 IPC meeting. He is a former UN weapons inspector and is exerting national leadership to make stopping the war drive the leading issue in the current U.S. elections.
Teams from the campaigns of the New York Independent LaRouche candidates Diane Sare (U.S. Senate) and Jose Vega (Bronx CD 15) are active in New York City all during the current international confabs.
One example of election pressure comes from Germany, where the state of Brandenburg on Sunday, Sept. 22 votes for a new state parliament. The voters are expected to massively dump the war parties running the Federal government in Berlin, as seen in the Sept. 1 state elections in nearby Thuringia and Saxony. The Green Party—part of the Berlin tripartite governing coalition, and ultra-pro war, may not even get enough votes to remain represented in the state’s parliament at all.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, speaking in Brandenburg yesterday, strongly reiterated that Germany will not send long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine, to strike inside Russia. “Although many people put pressure on me, I will not deliver cruise missiles that are capable of reaching as far as Moscow. I can assure you … here on this very spot, that I will stick to this stance.”
The cross-national “War Party” of the U.S., Britain and NATO is on the warpath for President “Collective” Biden to OK the use of U.S. long-range missiles from Ukraine against Russia, and directly and insanely snub President Putin’s clear warning that doing so will make it official that NATO is at war with Russia. At the UN General Assembly on Sept. 27, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer will speak, who has said he will announce Britain’s decision on this question at the time of the UNGA. Ukraine President Zelenskyy said last night in Kyiv, on the eve of coming to the United States, that he must have approval from the U.S. and U.K. He will address the UN Summit for the Future on Monday Sept. 23, and the UN General Assembly on Sept. 25; he will meet Sept. 24 with President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, and a meeting with former President Trump is mooted.
On Sunday, Sept. 22, Zelenskyy is going to Pennsylvania, the top battleground state in the Presidential elections, to personally campaign for U.S. aid to Ukraine, by visiting the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, which makes 155 mm artillery rounds. A military-industrial-financial complex jamboree is planned at the plant, attended by Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, and the Pentagon’s top weapons contract officer Will Plante. Zelenskyy says he wants to thank American workers. Is this foreign intervention in U.S. elections, or what?
Who and where are the voices of reason? On the scene in and around the UN in New York will be occasions and persons favorable to furthering the real basis of security and peace: economic development. For example, China will host a meeting on its Global Development Initiative, whose Friends of the GDI now number 80 nations. The title of the meeting is “GDI Support for the Global South: We Are the Action.” On Saturday, Sept. 28, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will address the UNGA. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will also speak at that time.
It is wide open for individuals and nations around the world to both sound the alarm and provide leadership. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will speak Sept. 23 at the Summit for the Future. He made the notable point in his statement on departure from India for the U.S.: India represents one-sixth of the entire world’s population when it participates in international dialogues. The Indian Foreign Ministry said this week that, when it comes to promoting peace as against the warfare taking place, India has ongoing “conversations” with all parties about this. It is a “work in progress” and India will continue these conversations.
There is no time to waste. The warfare increases. Ukraine last night aimed drones at several munitions depots in Russia, including in the Tver Federal district 250 miles northwest of Moscow. Russia used precision-weapons on Kharkiv and elsewhere.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) today struck 180 targets in southern Lebanon.
Take up the mandate for peace. Join with the International Peace Coalition to further action everywhere.
Contents
Strategic War Danger
- Israel Continues To Escalate Against Hezbollah (↓)
- Ukrainian Drones Hit Two More Russian Arms Depots (↓)
- Scholz States Firm Opposition To Provide Taurus Missiles to Ukraine (↓)
New World Paradigm
- Peace Is High Priority for Brandenburg Voters (↓)
- India’s Prime Minister Modi Arrives for High-Profile Visit to U.S., UN (↓)
- China Will Push Ahead on Global Development Initiative at UN This Week (↓)
Collapsing Imperial System
Strategic War Danger
- Patrick Lawrence: ‘The War Party Makes Its Plans’ (↓)
- Joe Lauria on the ‘Madness of Antony Blinken’ (↓)
