UN members on Friday voted to allow Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to give a video address to the General Assembly, thwarting attempts by Russia and its allies to silence him.
Next week's annual gathering will bring heads of state from around the world to UN headquarters in New York to address the assembly. Such speeches are ordinarily given in person, though video addresses were allowed in 2020 and 2021 during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The US was one of 101 UN member states that voted in favour of a motion to allow Mr Zelenskyy to deliver his speech via video, given the “very exceptional circumstance” of the war with Russia.
Seven nations, including Russia, Belarus, Nicaragua, Cuba, North Korea, Syria and Eritrea voted against the measure. Nineteen countries abstained, including China, which appears to be growing increasingly concerned with the Russia-initiated war.
Belarus put forward a Russia-backed proposal to allow any country to address the General Assembly by video but it failed to garner enough votes to proceed.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to miss this year's assembly, but Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov may attend.
The US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, told reporters on Friday that the US delegation has no current plans to meet Russian diplomats.
“We will be having meetings with the Ukrainians,” Ms Thomas-Greenfield said.
“There are no plans at this time to have meetings with the Russians. They have not indicated that they have an interest in diplomacy.”
She called for nations to hold Russia accountable for its actions in Ukraine.
“Our response to Russia's flagrant violations cannot be to abandon the founding principles of this organisation that we believe so strongly in,” she said.
“We must double down on our commitment to a peaceful world and hold even closer our deeply held principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity, peace and security.”
US President Joe Biden will be delivering his speech to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday morning. He was originally set to speak on Tuesday but is attending Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral in London on Monday.
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Key findings of Jenkins report
- Founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al Banna, "accepted the political utility of violence"
- Views of key Muslim Brotherhood ideologue, Sayyid Qutb, have “consistently been understood” as permitting “the use of extreme violence in the pursuit of the perfect Islamic society” and “never been institutionally disowned” by the movement.
- Muslim Brotherhood at all levels has repeatedly defended Hamas attacks against Israel, including the use of suicide bombers and the killing of civilians.
- Laying out the report in the House of Commons, David Cameron told MPs: "The main findings of the review support the conclusion that membership of, association with, or influence by the Muslim Brotherhood should be considered as a possible indicator of extremism."
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How the bonus system works
The two riders are among several riders in the UAE to receive the top payment of £10,000 under the Thank You Fund of £16 million (Dh80m), which was announced in conjunction with Deliveroo's £8 billion (Dh40bn) stock market listing earlier this year.
The £10,000 (Dh50,000) payment is made to those riders who have completed the highest number of orders in each market.
There are also riders who will receive payments of £1,000 (Dh5,000) and £500 (Dh2,500).
All riders who have worked with Deliveroo for at least one year and completed 2,000 orders will receive £200 (Dh1,000), the company said when it announced the scheme.
Who was Alfred Nobel?
The Nobel Prize was created by wealthy Swedish chemist and entrepreneur Alfred Nobel.
- In his will he dictated that the bulk of his estate should be used to fund "prizes to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind".
- Nobel is best known as the inventor of dynamite, but also wrote poetry and drama and could speak Russian, French, English and German by the age of 17. The five original prize categories reflect the interests closest to his heart.
- Nobel died in 1896 but it took until 1901, following a legal battle over his will, before the first prizes were awarded.
The years Ramadan fell in May
