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Click here to add us as a Preferred Source on Google. Then tap the \"Star\" or \"Preferred\" to keep DW News at the top of your feed.\nIran stands by desires for 'peaceful nuclear technology'\nIranian President Madoud Pezeshkian said during his speech that Iran was not prepared to give up its nuclear program, which it says is for peaceful power generation purposes.\nThis follows the US government and Donald Trump repeatedly insisting that one of its terms for a potential peace deal with Iran is that the country \"can never have a nuclear weapon.\"\n\"For our country, peaceful nuclear technology is part of our inherent progress,\" Pezeshkian said. \"For our sick people, it's cure and treatment. For our agricultural sector, it's food security. For industry's advancement and progress and supply of electrical energy. Iran does not accept for nuclear technology to be at the exclusive disposal of some, of a handful.\"\nHe said that the country would not \"bow our head and give up the right that is inherently ours.\"\nPezeshkian summed up his country's position on the nuclear question as: \"no nuclear weapons and no limitations to peaceful nuclear technology.\"\nThis has been Iran's public position for years. However, various US governments have been at least somewhat skeptical of the stated stance, while Israel has openly labeled it dishonest — Benjamin Netanyahu famously brought visual aids of his own to the UN General Assembly in 2012, as Pezeshkian did on Tuesday, showing how close to attaining a nuclear bomb he thought Iran was at the time.\nIran's Pezeshkian: 'We have been the victims of terrorism'\nIranian President Masoud Pezeshkian took the stage at just after 10 a.m. local time in New York, wearing an Iranian flag pin on his lapel.\n\"Yesterday, the United States president described us as terrorists,\" Pezeshkian told the chamber. \"We have been the victims of terrorism.\"\nHolding up a portrait of Ali Khamenei, killed in US-Israeli airstrikes at the start of the war, he said, \"I come from an Iran in which our esteemed supreme leader was assassinated without any legal framework or reason.\"\nHe then mentioned the bomb attack that struck a school early in the attacks on Iran, again holding up various images he said showed \"innocent children who in truth had committed no crimes.\"\nOnly one member of the US delegation was in the chamber amid the speech, and he stood up and left after these opening statements, as Pezeshkian was accusing the US and Israel of being \"terrorists\" and of training and protecting terrorists, only to describe Iran as such. However, both governments reject these accusations.\n\"We have only defended ourselves, we are not terrorists,\" he asserted. \"Our innocent people have been the targets of cowardly attacks and aggressions imposed on our country. And we defended ourselves with utmost strength.\"\nPezeskhian said Iranian people \"stood steadfast\" in response to the attacks, claiming that Iran retaliated but did not hit \"civilian populations,\" accusing Iran's attackers of targeting \"our universities, our healthcare centers, our schools, our hospitals, our infrastructure, all of it against international law.\"\nLater in his speech, Pezeshkian claimed that \"in the past seven months our people have been in the streets every night demonstrating in support of their land, of their homeland.\" He made no mention of the Iranian regime's violent suppression of major public protests in the weeks prior to the attacks on the country.\nLatvia's Rinkevics: Different threats, 1 lesson — 'none of us can face them alone'\nLatvia's President Edgar Rinkevics sought to stress the value of the UN and its charter in his speech, alluding to the much-trodden warnings that \"the world order is breaking down\" and that \"the rules-based order is under growing strain.\"\n\"The world has changed. International trade, mobility, technology — what happens far away is no longer far away. Instability travels. Conflicts cross borders. What happens in Ukrain does not stay in Ukraine. What happens in the Middle East, in the Red Sea, in Sudan, does not stay there.\"\nSimilarly, Rinkevics said, technology was also making \"distance matter even less.\"\n\"And nature respects no borders either. Heat waves do not stop at checkpoints,\" he said after a record-breaking summer in Europe. Rising sea levels, he said, were another climate change threat, but not the only one: \"In the mountains, a river may turn into a deadly flood. It can happen in seconds,\" he warned, referring to the flooding in Nepal in which 33 Latvian citizens died.\n\"Different threats, the same lesson: none of us can face them alone. We are in the same boat. Perhaps Noah's Ark is no longer just a biblical story,\" Rinkevics said. \"And when we share the same boat, we need something that hold us together. And we already have it: the United Nations charter and its principles.\"\nThese principles, he said, \"were not written for an easy world, quite the opposite.\" Rinkevics said they had emerged from the devastation of the second World War and from the determination not to repeat it.\n\"Peace was its purpose then. Peace remains our responsibility today. And peace will be relevant tomorrow,\" he said.\nRubio meets with Lavrov to discuss Ukraine war\nUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.\nLavrov had previously indicated that the war in Ukraine would be a major topic of discussion with Rubio, according to Russia's Interfax news agency.\nAhead of the meeting, the Kremlin said that its stance on Ukraine peace talks had not changed.\n\"For now, there are no prerequisites for moving onto a peaceful negotiating track, although we, as the Russian side, remain open to peace talks,\" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.\nHe reiterated Russia's position that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would need to travel to Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kyiv has suggested that talks place in a neutral country.\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to address the United Nations later on Wednesday.\nZelenskyy met with US President Donald Trump the previous day, saying that both Kyiv and Washington want to end the war with Russia \"before winter.\"\nAl-Sharaa hails Syria's reconstruction, criticizes Israeli 'aggressions'\nSyria's relatively new President Ahmed al-Sharaa said in his second appearance at the assembly since toppling Bashar Assad that the civil war-torn country's reconstruction was gathering pace.\n\"Last year I mentioned that Syria had come back, today I say to you that Syria is rising,\" he told the audience, before listing a series on achievements in what he termed \"our journey in the struggle between good and evil.\"\n\"The country was united. We controlled arms. We rebuilt military and civilian institutions, sanctions were lifted, projects for reconstruction have continued,\" al-Sharaa said, also hailing moves to combat drug trafficking, bring \"transitional justice\" to Assad regime members and reach out to the international community diplomatically.\nHe paid special tribute to the initiative dubbed \"the Breath of Freedom\" his administration launched with six regional partners to dispose of chemical weapons stores in conjunction with international bodies like the OPCW and IAEA.\nThe Syrian president, formerly the founder of the Islamist terror group known as the al Nusra Front, said this outreach with the international community stood in stark contrast to his administration's ties with Israel since taking over in December 2024.\n\"The world is overjoyed about our return but Israel is launching attacks against Syria,\" he said. \"There have been 500 airstrikes, more than 1,200 incursions and 300 detentions.\"\nHe said that \"any attempts that violate our sovereignty, violate international law will be stopped,\" adding that the \"will remain Syrian territories,\" in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 497 from 1981, which deemed Syria's occupation of the Golan Heights to contravene international law.\nIsrael retained de facto control of the area despite the resolution and has taken up more advanced positions in the aftermath of al-Sharaa's forces seizing power, citing security concerns.\n\"It is reminiscent of an era that we thought was long gone,\" al-Sharaa said. \"We call for the withdrawal of Israeli forces to the lines of December 8, 2024 [when the Assad regime fell]. We reject Israeli attempts to impose a fait accompli, we reject their aggressions.\"\nBrazil, Germany, India and Japan renew calls for Security Council reform\nThe foreign ministers of Brazil, Germany, India and Japan on Wednesday called for the reform of the UN Security Council (UNSC), saying it was more urgent than ever.\n\"Given the increasingly challenging geopolitical environment, UNSC reform is more necessary than ever before,\" the four foreign ministers said in a joint statement issued after the diplomats met on Tuesday.\nThe Security Council is a 15-member body with five permanent members — China, France, Russia, the UK and US — known as the P5 and 10 rotating members elected to two-year terms by the General Assembly.\nPermanent members enjoy veto powers, which often means the body is kept from carrying out resolutions due to conflicts with the interests of one or more of them.\nUNGA day 2: AI, Iran war, climate to dominate debate\nBeyond speeches by the presidents of Syria, Iran and Ukraine, artificial intelligence (AI), the US-Israeli war in Iran and the still-pressing issue of climate change are set to dominate the agenda at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday.\nOn day 2 of this 81st UNGA session, tech industry leaders Sam Altman (OpenAI), Dario Amodei (Anthropic) and Clement Delangue (Hugging Face) will brief an emergency meeting of the 15-member UN Security Council. Their attendance comes as international concerns — raised from within the industry — prompt debate over slowing AI development before the new technology potentially spins out of control with unknown consequences.\nUS President Donald Trump on Tuesday blasted calls to slow the technology as part of a \"globalist scheme,\" brushing aside warnings that it could wipe out humanity within years if left unchecked.\nAfter Trump used his General Assembly speech on Tuesday to threaten the annihilation of Iran and to drive its people \"into hell,\" the Islamic Republic's President Masoud Pezeshkian will directly address world leaders for the first time since the start of the war against Iran in February.\nThe conflict in Iran has settled into a hot stalemate, directly impacting neighboring states militarily and the entire globe economically.\nIranian and US representatives have met on the sidelines of the General Assembly in New York, but, as has been the case for months, a peace deal remains elusive and the flow of oil through the blockaded Strait of Hormuz stunted.\nRussia's more than four-and-a-half-year full-scale assault on Ukraine will also be the topic of diplomatic debate on Wednesday, with a Security Council session scheduled for the morning and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy set to address the General Assembly in the afternoon.\nLastly, climate urgency is on the slate, with outgoing UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres blasting fossil fuel giants for treating the Earth's atmosphere like an \"open sewer\" for emissions.\nHe further chided \"big oil\" for its greed as the world grapples with armed conflict.\n\"Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, five major Western oil companies have pocketed nearly half a trillion dollars in profits,\" he said, noting that at the same time just $34 billion (€29.8 billion) had been invested in helping developing countries adapt to a warming world.\nThanks for reading — we'll be back with more soon\nThanks for following this blog for on the first day of the UN General Assembly debate. We'll restart coverage later on Wednesday for day 2 of the event.\nWhat's expected on Wednesday?\nOn day 2 of the debate, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to take the stage as his country fends off Russia for another winter. US top diplomat Marco Rubio is also expected to meet his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines on Wednesday.\nIranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is slated to speak Wednesday, as the US continues its war with Iran.\nThe UN Security Council will also hold a meeting on AI. Open AI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are expected to attend the session.\nUS top diplomat Rubio to meet Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov on Wednesday\nUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in New York City on Wednesday morning, the US State Department said.\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Donald Trump at the UN headquarters on Tuesday to discuss an end to the 4-year-old war with Russia, including a potential bilateral ceasefire on energy-related targets.\nUK's Andy Burnham: 'Britain is back'\nIn his debut as UK prime minister at the UNGA debate, Andy Burnham declared \"Britain is back\" 10 years after the country dealt with the turbulence caused by Brexit.\nBurnham said the UK is \"restoring our stability\" and \"building a more dynamic economy\" while seeking trade and working together with other countries to tackle shared problems.\nHowever, he said the UK needs to deal with forces of division and instability. He said this begins with Britain boosting its defense expenditures as a NATO member state and strengthening European capabilities.\nAnother issue Burnham addressed was disinformation being sowed online by Russia-aligned actors.\n\"Russian agencies have used every means at their disposal to spread lies and disinformation and prey on people's fear,\" Burnham said. \"They've used bots and fake websites. Falsified newspaper articles. Forged the branding of 28 British organizations — including universities and the BBC. They've amplified far-right narratives.\"\nThe UK prime minister said there is evidence that Russia tried to interfere in the 2019 UK general election. He said the Kremlin spends around £1.3 billion ($1.7 billion, €1.5 billion) annually to sow disinformation.\nAs a solution, Burnham announced the National Centre for Information Defence to fight disinformation which hurts British interests.\nBurnham also addressed the issue of AI, saying global standards are needed because \"fundamental decisions on this technology are too important to be left to chance.\" Burnham said the UK will work on convincing other countries regarding rules on AI transparency and access to AI models.\nJapan's mission is to lead efforts towards world without nuclear weapons, Takaichi says\nJapan's conservative Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said it her country's \"mission\" to lead efforts towards a \"world without nuclear weapons.\"\nShe said this is because Japan is the \"the only country to have ever suffered atomic bombings during war.\" The US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II in 1945 killed and maimed hundreds of thousands people, with the radiation causing illnesses in survivors in the years after.\nTakaichi urged a stronger Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty regime. She also warned that North Korea's nuclear and missile programs along with other activities are a \"serious threat to international peace and security.\"\nIn regards to technology, Takaichi said Japan intends to host an AI safety summit in the future.\nThe Japanese prime minister also called for a reform of the UN Security Council by expanding both the number of permanent and non-permanent members.\nIN PICTURES: Mongolia, Vietnam, Dominica among afternoon speakers\nHere are some photos of leaders who spoke during this afternoon's session of the UNGA:\nNorth Korea's vice foreign minister traveling to UNGA\nNorth Korea's Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Kim Son Gyong has departed from Pyongyang to attend the UN General Assembly debate in New York City, North Korean state media outlet KCNA reported.\nIt's unclear whether Kim will meet with officials from the Trump administration.\nDuring his first term, Trump pushed for a deal where North Korea would give up its nuclear ambitions in exchange for sanctions relief.\nTrump had met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore, Hanoi and the Korean Demilitarized Zone in 2018 and 2019 to discuss a possible deal, but ultimately a final agreement never materialized after talks broke down in Sweden in October 2019.\nZelenskyy meets Trump, says US and Ukraine want war to end before winter\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly debate.\nIn a post on X, Zelenskyy characterized the meeting with Trump as \"positive and productive.\"\n\"Both the US and Ukraine want to see this senseless Russian war ended before winter. We discussed potential de-escalatory steps that can open up the way to diplomacy,\" Zelenskyy said.\n\"I am grateful that in the meantime our teams keep working on launching Patriot interceptor production in Ukraine. This is what will help proect lives, should Russia spurn the negotiations and keep betting on ballistic missile terror against our people this winter and beyond,\" the Ukrainian leader added.\nZelenskyy said he also discussed a winter package of air defense for Ukraine with Trump, among other issues.\nThe negotiation process between Ukraine and Russia is still stalled, with US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner visiting Moscow and Kyiv earlier this month to jumpstart the talks. It comes as Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine will hit its 5-year anniversary in February 2027.\nIn comments to journalists after the 40-minute meeting, Zelenskyy said the two leaders discussed an energy ceasefire. Zelenskyy said \"we are ready for any kind of format of energy ceasefire\" if Russia agrees to \"not attack our energy system.\"\nTrump has criticized Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries. He has, without evidence, blamed the Ukrainian attacks for raising the price of diesel fuel, as the US war with Iran disrupts energy shipments from the Strait of Hormuz.\nMacron calls for open-source AI model not dependent on US, China\nTowards the end of his wide-ranging address, French President Emmanuel Macron said there was a need for nations to develop their own artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities so as not to be beholden to the US and China.\n\"France is proud to have a competitive frontier model\" he said, likely referring to Mistral AI.\nMacron said likeminded nations such as India, Brazil, Singapore, African nations and the Gulf states should pool not only their financial resources but also their data processing capacity.\n\"I don't want anyone to become the vassal of one of the great powers. Rather, we must come together to build an open-source frontier model, a cutting-edge model,\" he told the UN General Assembly.\n\"Our investment capabilities must be pooled to build a cutting-edge open-source AI model, which we will share. 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Click here to add us as a Preferred Source on Google. Then tap the \"Star\" or \"Preferred\" to keep DW News at the top of your feed.\nIran stands by desires for 'peaceful nuclear technology'\nIranian President Madoud Pezeshkian said during his speech that Iran was not prepared to give up its nuclear program, which it says is for peaceful power generation purposes.\nThis follows the US government and Donald Trump repeatedly insisting that one of its terms for a potential peace deal with Iran is that the country \"can never have a nuclear weapon.\"\n\"For our country, peaceful nuclear technology is part of our inherent progress,\" Pezeshkian said. \"For our sick people, it's cure and treatment. For our agricultural sector, it's food security. For industry's advancement and progress and supply of electrical energy. Iran does not accept for nuclear technology to be at the exclusive disposal of some, of a handful.\"\nHe said that the country would not \"bow our head and give up the right that is inherently ours.\"\nPezeshkian summed up his country's position on the nuclear question as: \"no nuclear weapons and no limitations to peaceful nuclear technology.\"\nThis has been Iran's public position for years. However, various US governments have been at least somewhat skeptical of the stated stance, while Israel has openly labeled it dishonest — Benjamin Netanyahu famously brought visual aids of his own to the UN General Assembly in 2012, as Pezeshkian did on Tuesday, showing how close to attaining a nuclear bomb he thought Iran was at the time.\nIran's Pezeshkian: 'We have been the victims of terrorism'\nIranian President Masoud Pezeshkian took the stage at just after 10 a.m. local time in New York, wearing an Iranian flag pin on his lapel.\n\"Yesterday, the United States president described us as terrorists,\" Pezeshkian told the chamber. \"We have been the victims of terrorism.\"\nHolding up a portrait of Ali Khamenei, killed in US-Israeli airstrikes at the start of the war, he said, \"I come from an Iran in which our esteemed supreme leader was assassinated without any legal framework or reason.\"\nHe then mentioned the bomb attack that struck a school early in the attacks on Iran, again holding up various images he said showed \"innocent children who in truth had committed no crimes.\"\nOnly one member of the US delegation was in the chamber amid the speech, and he stood up and left after these opening statements, as Pezeshkian was accusing the US and Israel of being \"terrorists\" and of training and protecting terrorists, only to describe Iran as such. However, both governments reject these accusations.\n\"We have only defended ourselves, we are not terrorists,\" he asserted. \"Our innocent people have been the targets of cowardly attacks and aggressions imposed on our country. And we defended ourselves with utmost strength.\"\nPezeskhian said Iranian people \"stood steadfast\" in response to the attacks, claiming that Iran retaliated but did not hit \"civilian populations,\" accusing Iran's attackers of targeting \"our universities, our healthcare centers, our schools, our hospitals, our infrastructure, all of it against international law.\"\nLater in his speech, Pezeshkian claimed that \"in the past seven months our people have been in the streets every night demonstrating in support of their land, of their homeland.\" He made no mention of the Iranian regime's violent suppression of major public protests in the weeks prior to the attacks on the country.\nLatvia's Rinkevics: Different threats, 1 lesson — 'none of us can face them alone'\nLatvia's President Edgar Rinkevics sought to stress the value of the UN and its charter in his speech, alluding to the much-trodden warnings that \"the world order is breaking down\" and that \"the rules-based order is under growing strain.\"\n\"The world has changed. International trade, mobility, technology — what happens far away is no longer far away. Instability travels. Conflicts cross borders. What happens in Ukrain does not stay in Ukraine. What happens in the Middle East, in the Red Sea, in Sudan, does not stay there.\"\nSimilarly, Rinkevics said, technology was also making \"distance matter even less.\"\n\"And nature respects no borders either. Heat waves do not stop at checkpoints,\" he said after a record-breaking summer in Europe. Rising sea levels, he said, were another climate change threat, but not the only one: \"In the mountains, a river may turn into a deadly flood. It can happen in seconds,\" he warned, referring to the flooding in Nepal in which 33 Latvian citizens died.\n\"Different threats, the same lesson: none of us can face them alone. We are in the same boat. Perhaps Noah's Ark is no longer just a biblical story,\" Rinkevics said. \"And when we share the same boat, we need something that hold us together. And we already have it: the United Nations charter and its principles.\"\nThese principles, he said, \"were not written for an easy world, quite the opposite.\" Rinkevics said they had emerged from the devastation of the second World War and from the determination not to repeat it.\n\"Peace was its purpose then. Peace remains our responsibility today. And peace will be relevant tomorrow,\" he said.\nRubio meets with Lavrov to discuss Ukraine war\nUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.\nLavrov had previously indicated that the war in Ukraine would be a major topic of discussion with Rubio, according to Russia's Interfax news agency.\nAhead of the meeting, the Kremlin said that its stance on Ukraine peace talks had not changed.\n\"For now, there are no prerequisites for moving onto a peaceful negotiating track, although we, as the Russian side, remain open to peace talks,\" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.\nHe reiterated Russia's position that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would need to travel to Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kyiv has suggested that talks place in a neutral country.\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to address the United Nations later on Wednesday.\nZelenskyy met with US President Donald Trump the previous day, saying that both Kyiv and Washington want to end the war with Russia \"before winter.\"\nAl-Sharaa hails Syria's reconstruction, criticizes Israeli 'aggressions'\nSyria's relatively new President Ahmed al-Sharaa said in his second appearance at the assembly since toppling Bashar Assad that the civil war-torn country's reconstruction was gathering pace.\n\"Last year I mentioned that Syria had come back, today I say to you that Syria is rising,\" he told the audience, before listing a series on achievements in what he termed \"our journey in the struggle between good and evil.\"\n\"The country was united. We controlled arms. We rebuilt military and civilian institutions, sanctions were lifted, projects for reconstruction have continued,\" al-Sharaa said, also hailing moves to combat drug trafficking, bring \"transitional justice\" to Assad regime members and reach out to the international community diplomatically.\nHe paid special tribute to the initiative dubbed \"the Breath of Freedom\" his administration launched with six regional partners to dispose of chemical weapons stores in conjunction with international bodies like the OPCW and IAEA.\nThe Syrian president, formerly the founder of the Islamist terror group known as the al Nusra Front, said this outreach with the international community stood in stark contrast to his administration's ties with Israel since taking over in December 2024.\n\"The world is overjoyed about our return but Israel is launching attacks against Syria,\" he said. \"There have been 500 airstrikes, more than 1,200 incursions and 300 detentions.\"\nHe said that \"any attempts that violate our sovereignty, violate international law will be stopped,\" adding that the \"will remain Syrian territories,\" in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 497 from 1981, which deemed Syria's occupation of the Golan Heights to contravene international law.\nIsrael retained de facto control of the area despite the resolution and has taken up more advanced positions in the aftermath of al-Sharaa's forces seizing power, citing security concerns.\n\"It is reminiscent of an era that we thought was long gone,\" al-Sharaa said. \"We call for the withdrawal of Israeli forces to the lines of December 8, 2024 [when the Assad regime fell]. We reject Israeli attempts to impose a fait accompli, we reject their aggressions.\"\nBrazil, Germany, India and Japan renew calls for Security Council reform\nThe foreign ministers of Brazil, Germany, India and Japan on Wednesday called for the reform of the UN Security Council (UNSC), saying it was more urgent than ever.\n\"Given the increasingly challenging geopolitical environment, UNSC reform is more necessary than ever before,\" the four foreign ministers said in a joint statement issued after the diplomats met on Tuesday.\nThe Security Council is a 15-member body with five permanent members — China, France, Russia, the UK and US — known as the P5 and 10 rotating members elected to two-year terms by the General Assembly.\nPermanent members enjoy veto powers, which often means the body is kept from carrying out resolutions due to conflicts with the interests of one or more of them.\nUNGA day 2: AI, Iran war, climate to dominate debate\nBeyond speeches by the presidents of Syria, Iran and Ukraine, artificial intelligence (AI), the US-Israeli war in Iran and the still-pressing issue of climate change are set to dominate the agenda at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday.\nOn day 2 of this 81st UNGA session, tech industry leaders Sam Altman (OpenAI), Dario Amodei (Anthropic) and Clement Delangue (Hugging Face) will brief an emergency meeting of the 15-member UN Security Council. Their attendance comes as international concerns — raised from within the industry — prompt debate over slowing AI development before the new technology potentially spins out of control with unknown consequences.\nUS President Donald Trump on Tuesday blasted calls to slow the technology as part of a \"globalist scheme,\" brushing aside warnings that it could wipe out humanity within years if left unchecked.\nAfter Trump used his General Assembly speech on Tuesday to threaten the annihilation of Iran and to drive its people \"into hell,\" the Islamic Republic's President Masoud Pezeshkian will directly address world leaders for the first time since the start of the war against Iran in February.\nThe conflict in Iran has settled into a hot stalemate, directly impacting neighboring states militarily and the entire globe economically.\nIranian and US representatives have met on the sidelines of the General Assembly in New York, but, as has been the case for months, a peace deal remains elusive and the flow of oil through the blockaded Strait of Hormuz stunted.\nRussia's more than four-and-a-half-year full-scale assault on Ukraine will also be the topic of diplomatic debate on Wednesday, with a Security Council session scheduled for the morning and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy set to address the General Assembly in the afternoon.\nLastly, climate urgency is on the slate, with outgoing UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres blasting fossil fuel giants for treating the Earth's atmosphere like an \"open sewer\" for emissions.\nHe further chided \"big oil\" for its greed as the world grapples with armed conflict.\n\"Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, five major Western oil companies have pocketed nearly half a trillion dollars in profits,\" he said, noting that at the same time just $34 billion (€29.8 billion) had been invested in helping developing countries adapt to a warming world.\nThanks for reading — we'll be back with more soon\nThanks for following this blog for on the first day of the UN General Assembly debate. We'll restart coverage later on Wednesday for day 2 of the event.\nWhat's expected on Wednesday?\nOn day 2 of the debate, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to take the stage as his country fends off Russia for another winter. US top diplomat Marco Rubio is also expected to meet his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines on Wednesday.\nIranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is slated to speak Wednesday, as the US continues its war with Iran.\nThe UN Security Council will also hold a meeting on AI. Open AI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are expected to attend the session.\nUS top diplomat Rubio to meet Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov on Wednesday\nUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in New York City on Wednesday morning, the US State Department said.\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Donald Trump at the UN headquarters on Tuesday to discuss an end to the 4-year-old war with Russia, including a potential bilateral ceasefire on energy-related targets.\nUK's Andy Burnham: 'Britain is back'\nIn his debut as UK prime minister at the UNGA debate, Andy Burnham declared \"Britain is back\" 10 years after the country dealt with the turbulence caused by Brexit.\nBurnham said the UK is \"restoring our stability\" and \"building a more dynamic economy\" while seeking trade and working together with other countries to tackle shared problems.\nHowever, he said the UK needs to deal with forces of division and instability. He said this begins with Britain boosting its defense expenditures as a NATO member state and strengthening European capabilities.\nAnother issue Burnham addressed was disinformation being sowed online by Russia-aligned actors.\n\"Russian agencies have used every means at their disposal to spread lies and disinformation and prey on people's fear,\" Burnham said. \"They've used bots and fake websites. Falsified newspaper articles. Forged the branding of 28 British organizations — including universities and the BBC. They've amplified far-right narratives.\"\nThe UK prime minister said there is evidence that Russia tried to interfere in the 2019 UK general election. He said the Kremlin spends around £1.3 billion ($1.7 billion, €1.5 billion) annually to sow disinformation.\nAs a solution, Burnham announced the National Centre for Information Defence to fight disinformation which hurts British interests.\nBurnham also addressed the issue of AI, saying global standards are needed because \"fundamental decisions on this technology are too important to be left to chance.\" Burnham said the UK will work on convincing other countries regarding rules on AI transparency and access to AI models.\nJapan's mission is to lead efforts towards world without nuclear weapons, Takaichi says\nJapan's conservative Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said it her country's \"mission\" to lead efforts towards a \"world without nuclear weapons.\"\nShe said this is because Japan is the \"the only country to have ever suffered atomic bombings during war.\" The US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II in 1945 killed and maimed hundreds of thousands people, with the radiation causing illnesses in survivors in the years after.\nTakaichi urged a stronger Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty regime. She also warned that North Korea's nuclear and missile programs along with other activities are a \"serious threat to international peace and security.\"\nIn regards to technology, Takaichi said Japan intends to host an AI safety summit in the future.\nThe Japanese prime minister also called for a reform of the UN Security Council by expanding both the number of permanent and non-permanent members.\nIN PICTURES: Mongolia, Vietnam, Dominica among afternoon speakers\nHere are some photos of leaders who spoke during this afternoon's session of the UNGA:\nNorth Korea's vice foreign minister traveling to UNGA\nNorth Korea's Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Kim Son Gyong has departed from Pyongyang to attend the UN General Assembly debate in New York City, North Korean state media outlet KCNA reported.\nIt's unclear whether Kim will meet with officials from the Trump administration.\nDuring his first term, Trump pushed for a deal where North Korea would give up its nuclear ambitions in exchange for sanctions relief.\nTrump had met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore, Hanoi and the Korean Demilitarized Zone in 2018 and 2019 to discuss a possible deal, but ultimately a final agreement never materialized after talks broke down in Sweden in October 2019.\nZelenskyy meets Trump, says US and Ukraine want war to end before winter\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly debate.\nIn a post on X, Zelenskyy characterized the meeting with Trump as \"positive and productive.\"\n\"Both the US and Ukraine want to see this senseless Russian war ended before winter. We discussed potential de-escalatory steps that can open up the way to diplomacy,\" Zelenskyy said.\n\"I am grateful that in the meantime our teams keep working on launching Patriot interceptor production in Ukraine. This is what will help proect lives, should Russia spurn the negotiations and keep betting on ballistic missile terror against our people this winter and beyond,\" the Ukrainian leader added.\nZelenskyy said he also discussed a winter package of air defense for Ukraine with Trump, among other issues.\nThe negotiation process between Ukraine and Russia is still stalled, with US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner visiting Moscow and Kyiv earlier this month to jumpstart the talks. It comes as Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine will hit its 5-year anniversary in February 2027.\nIn comments to journalists after the 40-minute meeting, Zelenskyy said the two leaders discussed an energy ceasefire. Zelenskyy said \"we are ready for any kind of format of energy ceasefire\" if Russia agrees to \"not attack our energy system.\"\nTrump has criticized Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries. He has, without evidence, blamed the Ukrainian attacks for raising the price of diesel fuel, as the US war with Iran disrupts energy shipments from the Strait of Hormuz.\nMacron calls for open-source AI model not dependent on US, China\nTowards the end of his wide-ranging address, French President Emmanuel Macron said there was a need for nations to develop their own artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities so as not to be beholden to the US and China.\n\"France is proud to have a competitive frontier model\" he said, likely referring to Mistral AI.\nMacron said likeminded nations such as India, Brazil, Singapore, African nations and the Gulf states should pool not only their financial resources but also their data processing capacity.\n\"I don't want anyone to become the vassal of one of the great powers. Rather, we must come together to build an open-source frontier model, a cutting-edge model,\" he told the UN General Assembly.\n\"Our investment capabilities must be pooled to build a cutting-edge open-source AI model, which we will share. 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Click here to add us as a Preferred Source on Google.","source":"DW.com","date":"2026-09-22T22:48:57+00:00","content":"What you need to know\n- Artificial intelligence, the Iran war, and climate change set to dominate debate on Day 2 of UN General Assembly\n- Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Iran's Masoud Pezeshkian were among the first speakers, to be followed later by Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Spain's Pedro Sanchez and more\n- US President Donald Trump was among the first speakers to take the stage on Tuesday and said he had a 'big decision' to make on Iran, to either make a deal or 'annihilate' the country\n- Gathering of world leaders takes place against a backdrop of global conflicts, environmental crisis and massive technical disruption\nRead below for all the top headlines, videos and analyses on the 81 UN General Assembly from September 22-28, 2026:\nTired of missing our real-time updates? Click here to add us as a Preferred Source on Google. Then tap the \"Star\" or \"Preferred\" to keep DW News at the top of your feed.\nIran stands by desires for 'peaceful nuclear technology'\nIranian President Madoud Pezeshkian said during his speech that Iran was not prepared to give up its nuclear program, which it says is for peaceful power generation purposes.\nThis follows the US government and Donald Trump repeatedly insisting that one of its terms for a potential peace deal with Iran is that the country \"can never have a nuclear weapon.\"\n\"For our country, peaceful nuclear technology is part of our inherent progress,\" Pezeshkian said. \"For our sick people, it's cure and treatment. For our agricultural sector, it's food security. For industry's advancement and progress and supply of electrical energy. Iran does not accept for nuclear technology to be at the exclusive disposal of some, of a handful.\"\nHe said that the country would not \"bow our head and give up the right that is inherently ours.\"\nPezeshkian summed up his country's position on the nuclear question as: \"no nuclear weapons and no limitations to peaceful nuclear technology.\"\nThis has been Iran's public position for years. However, various US governments have been at least somewhat skeptical of the stated stance, while Israel has openly labeled it dishonest — Benjamin Netanyahu famously brought visual aids of his own to the UN General Assembly in 2012, as Pezeshkian did on Tuesday, showing how close to attaining a nuclear bomb he thought Iran was at the time.\nIran's Pezeshkian: 'We have been the victims of terrorism'\nIranian President Masoud Pezeshkian took the stage at just after 10 a.m. local time in New York, wearing an Iranian flag pin on his lapel.\n\"Yesterday, the United States president described us as terrorists,\" Pezeshkian told the chamber. \"We have been the victims of terrorism.\"\nHolding up a portrait of Ali Khamenei, killed in US-Israeli airstrikes at the start of the war, he said, \"I come from an Iran in which our esteemed supreme leader was assassinated without any legal framework or reason.\"\nHe then mentioned the bomb attack that struck a school early in the attacks on Iran, again holding up various images he said showed \"innocent children who in truth had committed no crimes.\"\nOnly one member of the US delegation was in the chamber amid the speech, and he stood up and left after these opening statements, as Pezeshkian was accusing the US and Israel of being \"terrorists\" and of training and protecting terrorists, only to describe Iran as such. However, both governments reject these accusations.\n\"We have only defended ourselves, we are not terrorists,\" he asserted. \"Our innocent people have been the targets of cowardly attacks and aggressions imposed on our country. And we defended ourselves with utmost strength.\"\nPezeskhian said Iranian people \"stood steadfast\" in response to the attacks, claiming that Iran retaliated but did not hit \"civilian populations,\" accusing Iran's attackers of targeting \"our universities, our healthcare centers, our schools, our hospitals, our infrastructure, all of it against international law.\"\nLater in his speech, Pezeshkian claimed that \"in the past seven months our people have been in the streets every night demonstrating in support of their land, of their homeland.\" He made no mention of the Iranian regime's violent suppression of major public protests in the weeks prior to the attacks on the country.\nLatvia's Rinkevics: Different threats, 1 lesson — 'none of us can face them alone'\nLatvia's President Edgar Rinkevics sought to stress the value of the UN and its charter in his speech, alluding to the much-trodden warnings that \"the world order is breaking down\" and that \"the rules-based order is under growing strain.\"\n\"The world has changed. International trade, mobility, technology — what happens far away is no longer far away. Instability travels. Conflicts cross borders. What happens in Ukrain does not stay in Ukraine. What happens in the Middle East, in the Red Sea, in Sudan, does not stay there.\"\nSimilarly, Rinkevics said, technology was also making \"distance matter even less.\"\n\"And nature respects no borders either. Heat waves do not stop at checkpoints,\" he said after a record-breaking summer in Europe. Rising sea levels, he said, were another climate change threat, but not the only one: \"In the mountains, a river may turn into a deadly flood. It can happen in seconds,\" he warned, referring to the flooding in Nepal in which 33 Latvian citizens died.\n\"Different threats, the same lesson: none of us can face them alone. We are in the same boat. Perhaps Noah's Ark is no longer just a biblical story,\" Rinkevics said. \"And when we share the same boat, we need something that hold us together. And we already have it: the United Nations charter and its principles.\"\nThese principles, he said, \"were not written for an easy world, quite the opposite.\" Rinkevics said they had emerged from the devastation of the second World War and from the determination not to repeat it.\n\"Peace was its purpose then. Peace remains our responsibility today. And peace will be relevant tomorrow,\" he said.\nRubio meets with Lavrov to discuss Ukraine war\nUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.\nLavrov had previously indicated that the war in Ukraine would be a major topic of discussion with Rubio, according to Russia's Interfax news agency.\nAhead of the meeting, the Kremlin said that its stance on Ukraine peace talks had not changed.\n\"For now, there are no prerequisites for moving onto a peaceful negotiating track, although we, as the Russian side, remain open to peace talks,\" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.\nHe reiterated Russia's position that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would need to travel to Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kyiv has suggested that talks place in a neutral country.\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to address the United Nations later on Wednesday.\nZelenskyy met with US President Donald Trump the previous day, saying that both Kyiv and Washington want to end the war with Russia \"before winter.\"\nAl-Sharaa hails Syria's reconstruction, criticizes Israeli 'aggressions'\nSyria's relatively new President Ahmed al-Sharaa said in his second appearance at the assembly since toppling Bashar Assad that the civil war-torn country's reconstruction was gathering pace.\n\"Last year I mentioned that Syria had come back, today I say to you that Syria is rising,\" he told the audience, before listing a series on achievements in what he termed \"our journey in the struggle between good and evil.\"\n\"The country was united. We controlled arms. We rebuilt military and civilian institutions, sanctions were lifted, projects for reconstruction have continued,\" al-Sharaa said, also hailing moves to combat drug trafficking, bring \"transitional justice\" to Assad regime members and reach out to the international community diplomatically.\nHe paid special tribute to the initiative dubbed \"the Breath of Freedom\" his administration launched with six regional partners to dispose of chemical weapons stores in conjunction with international bodies like the OPCW and IAEA.\nThe Syrian president, formerly the founder of the Islamist terror group known as the al Nusra Front, said this outreach with the international community stood in stark contrast to his administration's ties with Israel since taking over in December 2024.\n\"The world is overjoyed about our return but Israel is launching attacks against Syria,\" he said. \"There have been 500 airstrikes, more than 1,200 incursions and 300 detentions.\"\nHe said that \"any attempts that violate our sovereignty, violate international law will be stopped,\" adding that the \"will remain Syrian territories,\" in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 497 from 1981, which deemed Syria's occupation of the Golan Heights to contravene international law.\nIsrael retained de facto control of the area despite the resolution and has taken up more advanced positions in the aftermath of al-Sharaa's forces seizing power, citing security concerns.\n\"It is reminiscent of an era that we thought was long gone,\" al-Sharaa said. \"We call for the withdrawal of Israeli forces to the lines of December 8, 2024 [when the Assad regime fell]. We reject Israeli attempts to impose a fait accompli, we reject their aggressions.\"\nBrazil, Germany, India and Japan renew calls for Security Council reform\nThe foreign ministers of Brazil, Germany, India and Japan on Wednesday called for the reform of the UN Security Council (UNSC), saying it was more urgent than ever.\n\"Given the increasingly challenging geopolitical environment, UNSC reform is more necessary than ever before,\" the four foreign ministers said in a joint statement issued after the diplomats met on Tuesday.\nThe Security Council is a 15-member body with five permanent members — China, France, Russia, the UK and US — known as the P5 and 10 rotating members elected to two-year terms by the General Assembly.\nPermanent members enjoy veto powers, which often means the body is kept from carrying out resolutions due to conflicts with the interests of one or more of them.\nUNGA day 2: AI, Iran war, climate to dominate debate\nBeyond speeches by the presidents of Syria, Iran and Ukraine, artificial intelligence (AI), the US-Israeli war in Iran and the still-pressing issue of climate change are set to dominate the agenda at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday.\nOn day 2 of this 81st UNGA session, tech industry leaders Sam Altman (OpenAI), Dario Amodei (Anthropic) and Clement Delangue (Hugging Face) will brief an emergency meeting of the 15-member UN Security Council. Their attendance comes as international concerns — raised from within the industry — prompt debate over slowing AI development before the new technology potentially spins out of control with unknown consequences.\nUS President Donald Trump on Tuesday blasted calls to slow the technology as part of a \"globalist scheme,\" brushing aside warnings that it could wipe out humanity within years if left unchecked.\nAfter Trump used his General Assembly speech on Tuesday to threaten the annihilation of Iran and to drive its people \"into hell,\" the Islamic Republic's President Masoud Pezeshkian will directly address world leaders for the first time since the start of the war against Iran in February.\nThe conflict in Iran has settled into a hot stalemate, directly impacting neighboring states militarily and the entire globe economically.\nIranian and US representatives have met on the sidelines of the General Assembly in New York, but, as has been the case for months, a peace deal remains elusive and the flow of oil through the blockaded Strait of Hormuz stunted.\nRussia's more than four-and-a-half-year full-scale assault on Ukraine will also be the topic of diplomatic debate on Wednesday, with a Security Council session scheduled for the morning and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy set to address the General Assembly in the afternoon.\nLastly, climate urgency is on the slate, with outgoing UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres blasting fossil fuel giants for treating the Earth's atmosphere like an \"open sewer\" for emissions.\nHe further chided \"big oil\" for its greed as the world grapples with armed conflict.\n\"Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, five major Western oil companies have pocketed nearly half a trillion dollars in profits,\" he said, noting that at the same time just $34 billion (€29.8 billion) had been invested in helping developing countries adapt to a warming world.\nThanks for reading — we'll be back with more soon\nThanks for following this blog for on the first day of the UN General Assembly debate. We'll restart coverage later on Wednesday for day 2 of the event.\nWhat's expected on Wednesday?\nOn day 2 of the debate, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to take the stage as his country fends off Russia for another winter. US top diplomat Marco Rubio is also expected to meet his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines on Wednesday.\nIranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is slated to speak Wednesday, as the US continues its war with Iran.\nThe UN Security Council will also hold a meeting on AI. Open AI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are expected to attend the session.\nUS top diplomat Rubio to meet Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov on Wednesday\nUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in New York City on Wednesday morning, the US State Department said.\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Donald Trump at the UN headquarters on Tuesday to discuss an end to the 4-year-old war with Russia, including a potential bilateral ceasefire on energy-related targets.\nUK's Andy Burnham: 'Britain is back'\nIn his debut as UK prime minister at the UNGA debate, Andy Burnham declared \"Britain is back\" 10 years after the country dealt with the turbulence caused by Brexit.\nBurnham said the UK is \"restoring our stability\" and \"building a more dynamic economy\" while seeking trade and working together with other countries to tackle shared problems.\nHowever, he said the UK needs to deal with forces of division and instability. He said this begins with Britain boosting its defense expenditures as a NATO member state and strengthening European capabilities.\nAnother issue Burnham addressed was disinformation being sowed online by Russia-aligned actors.\n\"Russian agencies have used every means at their disposal to spread lies and disinformation and prey on people's fear,\" Burnham said. \"They've used bots and fake websites. Falsified newspaper articles. Forged the branding of 28 British organizations — including universities and the BBC. They've amplified far-right narratives.\"\nThe UK prime minister said there is evidence that Russia tried to interfere in the 2019 UK general election. He said the Kremlin spends around £1.3 billion ($1.7 billion, €1.5 billion) annually to sow disinformation.\nAs a solution, Burnham announced the National Centre for Information Defence to fight disinformation which hurts British interests.\nBurnham also addressed the issue of AI, saying global standards are needed because \"fundamental decisions on this technology are too important to be left to chance.\" Burnham said the UK will work on convincing other countries regarding rules on AI transparency and access to AI models.\nJapan's mission is to lead efforts towards world without nuclear weapons, Takaichi says\nJapan's conservative Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said it her country's \"mission\" to lead efforts towards a \"world without nuclear weapons.\"\nShe said this is because Japan is the \"the only country to have ever suffered atomic bombings during war.\" The US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II in 1945 killed and maimed hundreds of thousands people, with the radiation causing illnesses in survivors in the years after.\nTakaichi urged a stronger Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty regime. She also warned that North Korea's nuclear and missile programs along with other activities are a \"serious threat to international peace and security.\"\nIn regards to technology, Takaichi said Japan intends to host an AI safety summit in the future.\nThe Japanese prime minister also called for a reform of the UN Security Council by expanding both the number of permanent and non-permanent members.\nIN PICTURES: Mongolia, Vietnam, Dominica among afternoon speakers\nHere are some photos of leaders who spoke during this afternoon's session of the UNGA:\nNorth Korea's vice foreign minister traveling to UNGA\nNorth Korea's Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Kim Son Gyong has departed from Pyongyang to attend the UN General Assembly debate in New York City, North Korean state media outlet KCNA reported.\nIt's unclear whether Kim will meet with officials from the Trump administration.\nDuring his first term, Trump pushed for a deal where North Korea would give up its nuclear ambitions in exchange for sanctions relief.\nTrump had met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore, Hanoi and the Korean Demilitarized Zone in 2018 and 2019 to discuss a possible deal, but ultimately a final agreement never materialized after talks broke down in Sweden in October 2019.\nZelenskyy meets Trump, says US and Ukraine want war to end before winter\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly debate.\nIn a post on X, Zelenskyy characterized the meeting with Trump as \"positive and productive.\"\n\"Both the US and Ukraine want to see this senseless Russian war ended before winter. We discussed potential de-escalatory steps that can open up the way to diplomacy,\" Zelenskyy said.\n\"I am grateful that in the meantime our teams keep working on launching Patriot interceptor production in Ukraine. This is what will help proect lives, should Russia spurn the negotiations and keep betting on ballistic missile terror against our people this winter and beyond,\" the Ukrainian leader added.\nZelenskyy said he also discussed a winter package of air defense for Ukraine with Trump, among other issues.\nThe negotiation process between Ukraine and Russia is still stalled, with US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner visiting Moscow and Kyiv earlier this month to jumpstart the talks. It comes as Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine will hit its 5-year anniversary in February 2027.\nIn comments to journalists after the 40-minute meeting, Zelenskyy said the two leaders discussed an energy ceasefire. Zelenskyy said \"we are ready for any kind of format of energy ceasefire\" if Russia agrees to \"not attack our energy system.\"\nTrump has criticized Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries. He has, without evidence, blamed the Ukrainian attacks for raising the price of diesel fuel, as the US war with Iran disrupts energy shipments from the Strait of Hormuz.\nMacron calls for open-source AI model not dependent on US, China\nTowards the end of his wide-ranging address, French President Emmanuel Macron said there was a need for nations to develop their own artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities so as not to be beholden to the US and China.\n\"France is proud to have a competitive frontier model\" he said, likely referring to Mistral AI.\nMacron said likeminded nations such as India, Brazil, Singapore, African nations and the Gulf states should pool not only their financial resources but also their data processing capacity.\n\"I don't want anyone to become the vassal of one of the great powers. 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Then tap the \"Star\" or \"Preferred\" to keep DW News at the top of your feed.\nIran stands by desires for 'peaceful nuclear technology'\nIranian President Madoud Pezeshkian said during his speech that Iran was not prepared to give up its nuclear program, which it says is for peaceful power generation purposes.\nThis follows the US government and Donald Trump repeatedly insisting that one of its terms for a potential peace deal with Iran is that the country \"can never have a nuclear weapon.\"\n\"For our country, peaceful nuclear technology is part of our inherent progress,\" Pezeshkian said. \"For our sick people, it's cure and treatment. For our agricultural sector, it's food security. For industry's advancement and progress and supply of electrical energy. Iran does not accept for nuclear technology to be at the exclusive disposal of some, of a handful.\"\nHe said that the country would not \"bow our head and give up the right that is inherently ours.\"\nPezeshkian summed up his country's position on the nuclear question as: \"no nuclear weapons and no limitations to peaceful nuclear technology.\"\nThis has been Iran's public position for years. However, various US governments have been at least somewhat skeptical of the stated stance, while Israel has openly labeled it dishonest — Benjamin Netanyahu famously brought visual aids of his own to the UN General Assembly in 2012, as Pezeshkian did on Tuesday, showing how close to attaining a nuclear bomb he thought Iran was at the time.\nIran's Pezeshkian: 'We have been the victims of terrorism'\nIranian President Masoud Pezeshkian took the stage at just after 10 a.m. local time in New York, wearing an Iranian flag pin on his lapel.\n\"Yesterday, the United States president described us as terrorists,\" Pezeshkian told the chamber. \"We have been the victims of terrorism.\"\nHolding up a portrait of Ali Khamenei, killed in US-Israeli airstrikes at the start of the war, he said, \"I come from an Iran in which our esteemed supreme leader was assassinated without any legal framework or reason.\"\nHe then mentioned the bomb attack that struck a school early in the attacks on Iran, again holding up various images he said showed \"innocent children who in truth had committed no crimes.\"\nOnly one member of the US delegation was in the chamber amid the speech, and he stood up and left after these opening statements, as Pezeshkian was accusing the US and Israel of being \"terrorists\" and of training and protecting terrorists, only to describe Iran as such. However, both governments reject these accusations.\n\"We have only defended ourselves, we are not terrorists,\" he asserted. \"Our innocent people have been the targets of cowardly attacks and aggressions imposed on our country. And we defended ourselves with utmost strength.\"\nPezeskhian said Iranian people \"stood steadfast\" in response to the attacks, claiming that Iran retaliated but did not hit \"civilian populations,\" accusing Iran's attackers of targeting \"our universities, our healthcare centers, our schools, our hospitals, our infrastructure, all of it against international law.\"\nLater in his speech, Pezeshkian claimed that \"in the past seven months our people have been in the streets every night demonstrating in support of their land, of their homeland.\" He made no mention of the Iranian regime's violent suppression of major public protests in the weeks prior to the attacks on the country.\nLatvia's Rinkevics: Different threats, 1 lesson — 'none of us can face them alone'\nLatvia's President Edgar Rinkevics sought to stress the value of the UN and its charter in his speech, alluding to the much-trodden warnings that \"the world order is breaking down\" and that \"the rules-based order is under growing strain.\"\n\"The world has changed. International trade, mobility, technology — what happens far away is no longer far away. Instability travels. Conflicts cross borders. What happens in Ukrain does not stay in Ukraine. What happens in the Middle East, in the Red Sea, in Sudan, does not stay there.\"\nSimilarly, Rinkevics said, technology was also making \"distance matter even less.\"\n\"And nature respects no borders either. Heat waves do not stop at checkpoints,\" he said after a record-breaking summer in Europe. Rising sea levels, he said, were another climate change threat, but not the only one: \"In the mountains, a river may turn into a deadly flood. It can happen in seconds,\" he warned, referring to the flooding in Nepal in which 33 Latvian citizens died.\n\"Different threats, the same lesson: none of us can face them alone. We are in the same boat. Perhaps Noah's Ark is no longer just a biblical story,\" Rinkevics said. \"And when we share the same boat, we need something that hold us together. And we already have it: the United Nations charter and its principles.\"\nThese principles, he said, \"were not written for an easy world, quite the opposite.\" Rinkevics said they had emerged from the devastation of the second World War and from the determination not to repeat it.\n\"Peace was its purpose then. Peace remains our responsibility today. And peace will be relevant tomorrow,\" he said.\nRubio meets with Lavrov to discuss Ukraine war\nUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.\nLavrov had previously indicated that the war in Ukraine would be a major topic of discussion with Rubio, according to Russia's Interfax news agency.\nAhead of the meeting, the Kremlin said that its stance on Ukraine peace talks had not changed.\n\"For now, there are no prerequisites for moving onto a peaceful negotiating track, although we, as the Russian side, remain open to peace talks,\" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.\nHe reiterated Russia's position that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would need to travel to Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kyiv has suggested that talks place in a neutral country.\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to address the United Nations later on Wednesday.\nZelenskyy met with US President Donald Trump the previous day, saying that both Kyiv and Washington want to end the war with Russia \"before winter.\"\nAl-Sharaa hails Syria's reconstruction, criticizes Israeli 'aggressions'\nSyria's relatively new President Ahmed al-Sharaa said in his second appearance at the assembly since toppling Bashar Assad that the civil war-torn country's reconstruction was gathering pace.\n\"Last year I mentioned that Syria had come back, today I say to you that Syria is rising,\" he told the audience, before listing a series on achievements in what he termed \"our journey in the struggle between good and evil.\"\n\"The country was united. We controlled arms. We rebuilt military and civilian institutions, sanctions were lifted, projects for reconstruction have continued,\" al-Sharaa said, also hailing moves to combat drug trafficking, bring \"transitional justice\" to Assad regime members and reach out to the international community diplomatically.\nHe paid special tribute to the initiative dubbed \"the Breath of Freedom\" his administration launched with six regional partners to dispose of chemical weapons stores in conjunction with international bodies like the OPCW and IAEA.\nThe Syrian president, formerly the founder of the Islamist terror group known as the al Nusra Front, said this outreach with the international community stood in stark contrast to his administration's ties with Israel since taking over in December 2024.\n\"The world is overjoyed about our return but Israel is launching attacks against Syria,\" he said. \"There have been 500 airstrikes, more than 1,200 incursions and 300 detentions.\"\nHe said that \"any attempts that violate our sovereignty, violate international law will be stopped,\" adding that the \"will remain Syrian territories,\" in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 497 from 1981, which deemed Syria's occupation of the Golan Heights to contravene international law.\nIsrael retained de facto control of the area despite the resolution and has taken up more advanced positions in the aftermath of al-Sharaa's forces seizing power, citing security concerns.\n\"It is reminiscent of an era that we thought was long gone,\" al-Sharaa said. \"We call for the withdrawal of Israeli forces to the lines of December 8, 2024 [when the Assad regime fell]. We reject Israeli attempts to impose a fait accompli, we reject their aggressions.\"\nBrazil, Germany, India and Japan renew calls for Security Council reform\nThe foreign ministers of Brazil, Germany, India and Japan on Wednesday called for the reform of the UN Security Council (UNSC), saying it was more urgent than ever.\n\"Given the increasingly challenging geopolitical environment, UNSC reform is more necessary than ever before,\" the four foreign ministers said in a joint statement issued after the diplomats met on Tuesday.\nThe Security Council is a 15-member body with five permanent members — China, France, Russia, the UK and US — known as the P5 and 10 rotating members elected to two-year terms by the General Assembly.\nPermanent members enjoy veto powers, which often means the body is kept from carrying out resolutions due to conflicts with the interests of one or more of them.\nUNGA day 2: AI, Iran war, climate to dominate debate\nBeyond speeches by the presidents of Syria, Iran and Ukraine, artificial intelligence (AI), the US-Israeli war in Iran and the still-pressing issue of climate change are set to dominate the agenda at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday.\nOn day 2 of this 81st UNGA session, tech industry leaders Sam Altman (OpenAI), Dario Amodei (Anthropic) and Clement Delangue (Hugging Face) will brief an emergency meeting of the 15-member UN Security Council. Their attendance comes as international concerns — raised from within the industry — prompt debate over slowing AI development before the new technology potentially spins out of control with unknown consequences.\nUS President Donald Trump on Tuesday blasted calls to slow the technology as part of a \"globalist scheme,\" brushing aside warnings that it could wipe out humanity within years if left unchecked.\nAfter Trump used his General Assembly speech on Tuesday to threaten the annihilation of Iran and to drive its people \"into hell,\" the Islamic Republic's President Masoud Pezeshkian will directly address world leaders for the first time since the start of the war against Iran in February.\nThe conflict in Iran has settled into a hot stalemate, directly impacting neighboring states militarily and the entire globe economically.\nIranian and US representatives have met on the sidelines of the General Assembly in New York, but, as has been the case for months, a peace deal remains elusive and the flow of oil through the blockaded Strait of Hormuz stunted.\nRussia's more than four-and-a-half-year full-scale assault on Ukraine will also be the topic of diplomatic debate on Wednesday, with a Security Council session scheduled for the morning and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy set to address the General Assembly in the afternoon.\nLastly, climate urgency is on the slate, with outgoing UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres blasting fossil fuel giants for treating the Earth's atmosphere like an \"open sewer\" for emissions.\nHe further chided \"big oil\" for its greed as the world grapples with armed conflict.\n\"Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, five major Western oil companies have pocketed nearly half a trillion dollars in profits,\" he said, noting that at the same time just $34 billion (€29.8 billion) had been invested in helping developing countries adapt to a warming world.\nThanks for reading — we'll be back with more soon\nThanks for following this blog for on the first day of the UN General Assembly debate. We'll restart coverage later on Wednesday for day 2 of the event.\nWhat's expected on Wednesday?\nOn day 2 of the debate, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to take the stage as his country fends off Russia for another winter. US top diplomat Marco Rubio is also expected to meet his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines on Wednesday.\nIranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is slated to speak Wednesday, as the US continues its war with Iran.\nThe UN Security Council will also hold a meeting on AI. Open AI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are expected to attend the session.\nUS top diplomat Rubio to meet Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov on Wednesday\nUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in New York City on Wednesday morning, the US State Department said.\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Donald Trump at the UN headquarters on Tuesday to discuss an end to the 4-year-old war with Russia, including a potential bilateral ceasefire on energy-related targets.\nUK's Andy Burnham: 'Britain is back'\nIn his debut as UK prime minister at the UNGA debate, Andy Burnham declared \"Britain is back\" 10 years after the country dealt with the turbulence caused by Brexit.\nBurnham said the UK is \"restoring our stability\" and \"building a more dynamic economy\" while seeking trade and working together with other countries to tackle shared problems.\nHowever, he said the UK needs to deal with forces of division and instability. He said this begins with Britain boosting its defense expenditures as a NATO member state and strengthening European capabilities.\nAnother issue Burnham addressed was disinformation being sowed online by Russia-aligned actors.\n\"Russian agencies have used every means at their disposal to spread lies and disinformation and prey on people's fear,\" Burnham said. \"They've used bots and fake websites. Falsified newspaper articles. Forged the branding of 28 British organizations — including universities and the BBC. They've amplified far-right narratives.\"\nThe UK prime minister said there is evidence that Russia tried to interfere in the 2019 UK general election. He said the Kremlin spends around £1.3 billion ($1.7 billion, €1.5 billion) annually to sow disinformation.\nAs a solution, Burnham announced the National Centre for Information Defence to fight disinformation which hurts British interests.\nBurnham also addressed the issue of AI, saying global standards are needed because \"fundamental decisions on this technology are too important to be left to chance.\" Burnham said the UK will work on convincing other countries regarding rules on AI transparency and access to AI models.\nJapan's mission is to lead efforts towards world without nuclear weapons, Takaichi says\nJapan's conservative Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said it her country's \"mission\" to lead efforts towards a \"world without nuclear weapons.\"\nShe said this is because Japan is the \"the only country to have ever suffered atomic bombings during war.\" The US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II in 1945 killed and maimed hundreds of thousands people, with the radiation causing illnesses in survivors in the years after.\nTakaichi urged a stronger Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty regime. She also warned that North Korea's nuclear and missile programs along with other activities are a \"serious threat to international peace and security.\"\nIn regards to technology, Takaichi said Japan intends to host an AI safety summit in the future.\nThe Japanese prime minister also called for a reform of the UN Security Council by expanding both the number of permanent and non-permanent members.\nIN PICTURES: Mongolia, Vietnam, Dominica among afternoon speakers\nHere are some photos of leaders who spoke during this afternoon's session of the UNGA:\nNorth Korea's vice foreign minister traveling to UNGA\nNorth Korea's Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Kim Son Gyong has departed from Pyongyang to attend the UN General Assembly debate in New York City, North Korean state media outlet KCNA reported.\nIt's unclear whether Kim will meet with officials from the Trump administration.\nDuring his first term, Trump pushed for a deal where North Korea would give up its nuclear ambitions in exchange for sanctions relief.\nTrump had met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore, Hanoi and the Korean Demilitarized Zone in 2018 and 2019 to discuss a possible deal, but ultimately a final agreement never materialized after talks broke down in Sweden in October 2019.\nZelenskyy meets Trump, says US and Ukraine want war to end before winter\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly debate.\nIn a post on X, Zelenskyy characterized the meeting with Trump as \"positive and productive.\"\n\"Both the US and Ukraine want to see this senseless Russian war ended before winter. We discussed potential de-escalatory steps that can open up the way to diplomacy,\" Zelenskyy said.\n\"I am grateful that in the meantime our teams keep working on launching Patriot interceptor production in Ukraine. This is what will help proect lives, should Russia spurn the negotiations and keep betting on ballistic missile terror against our people this winter and beyond,\" the Ukrainian leader added.\nZelenskyy said he also discussed a winter package of air defense for Ukraine with Trump, among other issues.\nThe negotiation process between Ukraine and Russia is still stalled, with US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner visiting Moscow and Kyiv earlier this month to jumpstart the talks. It comes as Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine will hit its 5-year anniversary in February 2027.\nIn comments to journalists after the 40-minute meeting, Zelenskyy said the two leaders discussed an energy ceasefire. Zelenskyy said \"we are ready for any kind of format of energy ceasefire\" if Russia agrees to \"not attack our energy system.\"\nTrump has criticized Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries. He has, without evidence, blamed the Ukrainian attacks for raising the price of diesel fuel, as the US war with Iran disrupts energy shipments from the Strait of Hormuz.\nMacron calls for open-source AI model not dependent on US, China\nTowards the end of his wide-ranging address, French President Emmanuel Macron said there was a need for nations to develop their own artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities so as not to be beholden to the US and China.\n\"France is proud to have a competitive frontier model\" he said, likely referring to Mistral AI.\nMacron said likeminded nations such as India, Brazil, Singapore, African nations and the Gulf states should pool not only their financial resources but also their data processing capacity.\n\"I don't want anyone to become the vassal of one of the great powers. 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Click here to add us as a Preferred Source on Google.","source":"DW.com","date":"2026-09-22T22:48:57+00:00","content":"What you need to know\n- Artificial intelligence, the Iran war, and climate change set to dominate debate on Day 2 of UN General Assembly\n- Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Iran's Masoud Pezeshkian were among the first speakers, to be followed later by Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Spain's Pedro Sanchez and more\n- US President Donald Trump was among the first speakers to take the stage on Tuesday and said he had a 'big decision' to make on Iran, to either make a deal or 'annihilate' the country\n- Gathering of world leaders takes place against a backdrop of global conflicts, environmental crisis and massive technical disruption\nRead below for all the top headlines, videos and analyses on the 81 UN General Assembly from September 22-28, 2026:\nTired of missing our real-time updates? Click here to add us as a Preferred Source on Google. Then tap the \"Star\" or \"Preferred\" to keep DW News at the top of your feed.\nIran stands by desires for 'peaceful nuclear technology'\nIranian President Madoud Pezeshkian said during his speech that Iran was not prepared to give up its nuclear program, which it says is for peaceful power generation purposes.\nThis follows the US government and Donald Trump repeatedly insisting that one of its terms for a potential peace deal with Iran is that the country \"can never have a nuclear weapon.\"\n\"For our country, peaceful nuclear technology is part of our inherent progress,\" Pezeshkian said. \"For our sick people, it's cure and treatment. For our agricultural sector, it's food security. For industry's advancement and progress and supply of electrical energy. Iran does not accept for nuclear technology to be at the exclusive disposal of some, of a handful.\"\nHe said that the country would not \"bow our head and give up the right that is inherently ours.\"\nPezeshkian summed up his country's position on the nuclear question as: \"no nuclear weapons and no limitations to peaceful nuclear technology.\"\nThis has been Iran's public position for years. However, various US governments have been at least somewhat skeptical of the stated stance, while Israel has openly labeled it dishonest — Benjamin Netanyahu famously brought visual aids of his own to the UN General Assembly in 2012, as Pezeshkian did on Tuesday, showing how close to attaining a nuclear bomb he thought Iran was at the time.\nIran's Pezeshkian: 'We have been the victims of terrorism'\nIranian President Masoud Pezeshkian took the stage at just after 10 a.m. local time in New York, wearing an Iranian flag pin on his lapel.\n\"Yesterday, the United States president described us as terrorists,\" Pezeshkian told the chamber. \"We have been the victims of terrorism.\"\nHolding up a portrait of Ali Khamenei, killed in US-Israeli airstrikes at the start of the war, he said, \"I come from an Iran in which our esteemed supreme leader was assassinated without any legal framework or reason.\"\nHe then mentioned the bomb attack that struck a school early in the attacks on Iran, again holding up various images he said showed \"innocent children who in truth had committed no crimes.\"\nOnly one member of the US delegation was in the chamber amid the speech, and he stood up and left after these opening statements, as Pezeshkian was accusing the US and Israel of being \"terrorists\" and of training and protecting terrorists, only to describe Iran as such. However, both governments reject these accusations.\n\"We have only defended ourselves, we are not terrorists,\" he asserted. \"Our innocent people have been the targets of cowardly attacks and aggressions imposed on our country. And we defended ourselves with utmost strength.\"\nPezeskhian said Iranian people \"stood steadfast\" in response to the attacks, claiming that Iran retaliated but did not hit \"civilian populations,\" accusing Iran's attackers of targeting \"our universities, our healthcare centers, our schools, our hospitals, our infrastructure, all of it against international law.\"\nLater in his speech, Pezeshkian claimed that \"in the past seven months our people have been in the streets every night demonstrating in support of their land, of their homeland.\" He made no mention of the Iranian regime's violent suppression of major public protests in the weeks prior to the attacks on the country.\nLatvia's Rinkevics: Different threats, 1 lesson — 'none of us can face them alone'\nLatvia's President Edgar Rinkevics sought to stress the value of the UN and its charter in his speech, alluding to the much-trodden warnings that \"the world order is breaking down\" and that \"the rules-based order is under growing strain.\"\n\"The world has changed. International trade, mobility, technology — what happens far away is no longer far away. Instability travels. Conflicts cross borders. What happens in Ukrain does not stay in Ukraine. What happens in the Middle East, in the Red Sea, in Sudan, does not stay there.\"\nSimilarly, Rinkevics said, technology was also making \"distance matter even less.\"\n\"And nature respects no borders either. Heat waves do not stop at checkpoints,\" he said after a record-breaking summer in Europe. Rising sea levels, he said, were another climate change threat, but not the only one: \"In the mountains, a river may turn into a deadly flood. It can happen in seconds,\" he warned, referring to the flooding in Nepal in which 33 Latvian citizens died.\n\"Different threats, the same lesson: none of us can face them alone. We are in the same boat. Perhaps Noah's Ark is no longer just a biblical story,\" Rinkevics said. \"And when we share the same boat, we need something that hold us together. And we already have it: the United Nations charter and its principles.\"\nThese principles, he said, \"were not written for an easy world, quite the opposite.\" Rinkevics said they had emerged from the devastation of the second World War and from the determination not to repeat it.\n\"Peace was its purpose then. Peace remains our responsibility today. And peace will be relevant tomorrow,\" he said.\nRubio meets with Lavrov to discuss Ukraine war\nUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.\nLavrov had previously indicated that the war in Ukraine would be a major topic of discussion with Rubio, according to Russia's Interfax news agency.\nAhead of the meeting, the Kremlin said that its stance on Ukraine peace talks had not changed.\n\"For now, there are no prerequisites for moving onto a peaceful negotiating track, although we, as the Russian side, remain open to peace talks,\" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.\nHe reiterated Russia's position that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would need to travel to Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kyiv has suggested that talks place in a neutral country.\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to address the United Nations later on Wednesday.\nZelenskyy met with US President Donald Trump the previous day, saying that both Kyiv and Washington want to end the war with Russia \"before winter.\"\nAl-Sharaa hails Syria's reconstruction, criticizes Israeli 'aggressions'\nSyria's relatively new President Ahmed al-Sharaa said in his second appearance at the assembly since toppling Bashar Assad that the civil war-torn country's reconstruction was gathering pace.\n\"Last year I mentioned that Syria had come back, today I say to you that Syria is rising,\" he told the audience, before listing a series on achievements in what he termed \"our journey in the struggle between good and evil.\"\n\"The country was united. We controlled arms. We rebuilt military and civilian institutions, sanctions were lifted, projects for reconstruction have continued,\" al-Sharaa said, also hailing moves to combat drug trafficking, bring \"transitional justice\" to Assad regime members and reach out to the international community diplomatically.\nHe paid special tribute to the initiative dubbed \"the Breath of Freedom\" his administration launched with six regional partners to dispose of chemical weapons stores in conjunction with international bodies like the OPCW and IAEA.\nThe Syrian president, formerly the founder of the Islamist terror group known as the al Nusra Front, said this outreach with the international community stood in stark contrast to his administration's ties with Israel since taking over in December 2024.\n\"The world is overjoyed about our return but Israel is launching attacks against Syria,\" he said. \"There have been 500 airstrikes, more than 1,200 incursions and 300 detentions.\"\nHe said that \"any attempts that violate our sovereignty, violate international law will be stopped,\" adding that the \"will remain Syrian territories,\" in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 497 from 1981, which deemed Syria's occupation of the Golan Heights to contravene international law.\nIsrael retained de facto control of the area despite the resolution and has taken up more advanced positions in the aftermath of al-Sharaa's forces seizing power, citing security concerns.\n\"It is reminiscent of an era that we thought was long gone,\" al-Sharaa said. \"We call for the withdrawal of Israeli forces to the lines of December 8, 2024 [when the Assad regime fell]. We reject Israeli attempts to impose a fait accompli, we reject their aggressions.\"\nBrazil, Germany, India and Japan renew calls for Security Council reform\nThe foreign ministers of Brazil, Germany, India and Japan on Wednesday called for the reform of the UN Security Council (UNSC), saying it was more urgent than ever.\n\"Given the increasingly challenging geopolitical environment, UNSC reform is more necessary than ever before,\" the four foreign ministers said in a joint statement issued after the diplomats met on Tuesday.\nThe Security Council is a 15-member body with five permanent members — China, France, Russia, the UK and US — known as the P5 and 10 rotating members elected to two-year terms by the General Assembly.\nPermanent members enjoy veto powers, which often means the body is kept from carrying out resolutions due to conflicts with the interests of one or more of them.\nUNGA day 2: AI, Iran war, climate to dominate debate\nBeyond speeches by the presidents of Syria, Iran and Ukraine, artificial intelligence (AI), the US-Israeli war in Iran and the still-pressing issue of climate change are set to dominate the agenda at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday.\nOn day 2 of this 81st UNGA session, tech industry leaders Sam Altman (OpenAI), Dario Amodei (Anthropic) and Clement Delangue (Hugging Face) will brief an emergency meeting of the 15-member UN Security Council. Their attendance comes as international concerns — raised from within the industry — prompt debate over slowing AI development before the new technology potentially spins out of control with unknown consequences.\nUS President Donald Trump on Tuesday blasted calls to slow the technology as part of a \"globalist scheme,\" brushing aside warnings that it could wipe out humanity within years if left unchecked.\nAfter Trump used his General Assembly speech on Tuesday to threaten the annihilation of Iran and to drive its people \"into hell,\" the Islamic Republic's President Masoud Pezeshkian will directly address world leaders for the first time since the start of the war against Iran in February.\nThe conflict in Iran has settled into a hot stalemate, directly impacting neighboring states militarily and the entire globe economically.\nIranian and US representatives have met on the sidelines of the General Assembly in New York, but, as has been the case for months, a peace deal remains elusive and the flow of oil through the blockaded Strait of Hormuz stunted.\nRussia's more than four-and-a-half-year full-scale assault on Ukraine will also be the topic of diplomatic debate on Wednesday, with a Security Council session scheduled for the morning and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy set to address the General Assembly in the afternoon.\nLastly, climate urgency is on the slate, with outgoing UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres blasting fossil fuel giants for treating the Earth's atmosphere like an \"open sewer\" for emissions.\nHe further chided \"big oil\" for its greed as the world grapples with armed conflict.\n\"Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, five major Western oil companies have pocketed nearly half a trillion dollars in profits,\" he said, noting that at the same time just $34 billion (€29.8 billion) had been invested in helping developing countries adapt to a warming world.\nThanks for reading — we'll be back with more soon\nThanks for following this blog for on the first day of the UN General Assembly debate. We'll restart coverage later on Wednesday for day 2 of the event.\nWhat's expected on Wednesday?\nOn day 2 of the debate, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to take the stage as his country fends off Russia for another winter. US top diplomat Marco Rubio is also expected to meet his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines on Wednesday.\nIranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is slated to speak Wednesday, as the US continues its war with Iran.\nThe UN Security Council will also hold a meeting on AI. Open AI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are expected to attend the session.\nUS top diplomat Rubio to meet Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov on Wednesday\nUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in New York City on Wednesday morning, the US State Department said.\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Donald Trump at the UN headquarters on Tuesday to discuss an end to the 4-year-old war with Russia, including a potential bilateral ceasefire on energy-related targets.\nUK's Andy Burnham: 'Britain is back'\nIn his debut as UK prime minister at the UNGA debate, Andy Burnham declared \"Britain is back\" 10 years after the country dealt with the turbulence caused by Brexit.\nBurnham said the UK is \"restoring our stability\" and \"building a more dynamic economy\" while seeking trade and working together with other countries to tackle shared problems.\nHowever, he said the UK needs to deal with forces of division and instability. He said this begins with Britain boosting its defense expenditures as a NATO member state and strengthening European capabilities.\nAnother issue Burnham addressed was disinformation being sowed online by Russia-aligned actors.\n\"Russian agencies have used every means at their disposal to spread lies and disinformation and prey on people's fear,\" Burnham said. \"They've used bots and fake websites. Falsified newspaper articles. Forged the branding of 28 British organizations — including universities and the BBC. They've amplified far-right narratives.\"\nThe UK prime minister said there is evidence that Russia tried to interfere in the 2019 UK general election. He said the Kremlin spends around £1.3 billion ($1.7 billion, €1.5 billion) annually to sow disinformation.\nAs a solution, Burnham announced the National Centre for Information Defence to fight disinformation which hurts British interests.\nBurnham also addressed the issue of AI, saying global standards are needed because \"fundamental decisions on this technology are too important to be left to chance.\" Burnham said the UK will work on convincing other countries regarding rules on AI transparency and access to AI models.\nJapan's mission is to lead efforts towards world without nuclear weapons, Takaichi says\nJapan's conservative Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said it her country's \"mission\" to lead efforts towards a \"world without nuclear weapons.\"\nShe said this is because Japan is the \"the only country to have ever suffered atomic bombings during war.\" The US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II in 1945 killed and maimed hundreds of thousands people, with the radiation causing illnesses in survivors in the years after.\nTakaichi urged a stronger Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty regime. She also warned that North Korea's nuclear and missile programs along with other activities are a \"serious threat to international peace and security.\"\nIn regards to technology, Takaichi said Japan intends to host an AI safety summit in the future.\nThe Japanese prime minister also called for a reform of the UN Security Council by expanding both the number of permanent and non-permanent members.\nIN PICTURES: Mongolia, Vietnam, Dominica among afternoon speakers\nHere are some photos of leaders who spoke during this afternoon's session of the UNGA:\nNorth Korea's vice foreign minister traveling to UNGA\nNorth Korea's Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Kim Son Gyong has departed from Pyongyang to attend the UN General Assembly debate in New York City, North Korean state media outlet KCNA reported.\nIt's unclear whether Kim will meet with officials from the Trump administration.\nDuring his first term, Trump pushed for a deal where North Korea would give up its nuclear ambitions in exchange for sanctions relief.\nTrump had met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore, Hanoi and the Korean Demilitarized Zone in 2018 and 2019 to discuss a possible deal, but ultimately a final agreement never materialized after talks broke down in Sweden in October 2019.\nZelenskyy meets Trump, says US and Ukraine want war to end before winter\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly debate.\nIn a post on X, Zelenskyy characterized the meeting with Trump as \"positive and productive.\"\n\"Both the US and Ukraine want to see this senseless Russian war ended before winter. We discussed potential de-escalatory steps that can open up the way to diplomacy,\" Zelenskyy said.\n\"I am grateful that in the meantime our teams keep working on launching Patriot interceptor production in Ukraine. This is what will help proect lives, should Russia spurn the negotiations and keep betting on ballistic missile terror against our people this winter and beyond,\" the Ukrainian leader added.\nZelenskyy said he also discussed a winter package of air defense for Ukraine with Trump, among other issues.\nThe negotiation process between Ukraine and Russia is still stalled, with US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner visiting Moscow and Kyiv earlier this month to jumpstart the talks. It comes as Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine will hit its 5-year anniversary in February 2027.\nIn comments to journalists after the 40-minute meeting, Zelenskyy said the two leaders discussed an energy ceasefire. Zelenskyy said \"we are ready for any kind of format of energy ceasefire\" if Russia agrees to \"not attack our energy system.\"\nTrump has criticized Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries. 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