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<\/a>The hearing of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly<\/p><\/div>\n
Despite appearances, the procession of the heads of State and government, or Ministers for Foreign Affairs, at the General Assembly of the United Nation was not without purpose. It\u2019s true that most of them, having little to say, addressed their interior public opinions by blaming UNO incompetence and calling for a respect for the law. But many of their interventions went straight to the heart of the matter \u2013 how to resolve the disputes between States and guarantee peace?<\/span><\/p>\n The first three days were marked by the speech by Donald Trump (United States) and the responses by Emmanuel Macron (France) and Hassan Rohani (Iran). But all these complications were shattered on the fourth day with the intervention by Sergue\u00ef Lavrov (Russia), when he presented the map of the post-Western world.<\/span><\/p>\n President Trump, whose speeches are usually extremely disorganised, had on this occasion prepared a finely structured text\u00a0[1<\/a><\/strong><\/span>]. Distinguishing himself from his predecessors, he affirmed that he gave privilege to \u00ab independence and cooperation \u00bb, rather than \u00ab governance, control and international domination \u00bb (in other words, his national interests rather than those of the \u00ab American Empire \u00bb). He followed by enumerating the readjustments of the system he had set in motion.<\/span><\/p>\n –>\u00a0The USA has not declared commercial war on China but is in the process of re-establishing its balance of payments. Simultaneously, the US is trying to restore an international market founded on free market competition, as demonstrated by their position in the energy sector. The US has become a major <\/span>exporters of hydrocarbons, and would, therefore, benefit from high prices, but it opposes the existence of an intergovernmental cartel, the OPEC, and is calling for lower prices.<\/span> The reference to the Monroe doctrine merits an explanation since the expression suggests US colonialism at the beginning of the 20th century. Donald Trump is an admirer of the foreign policies of two very controversial personalities, Presidents Andrew Jackson (1829-1837) and Richard Nixon (1969-74). The Monroe doctrine (1823) was elaborated during the intervention of a man who at that time was no more than General Jackson in the Spanish colony of Florida. At that time, James Monroe wanted to protect the American continent from European imperialism. It was the \u00ab era of good feelings \u00bb. He, therefore, pledged that the United States would not intervene in Europe if Europe stopped intervening in the Americas. It was only three-quarters of a century later, notably with Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909), that the Monroe doctrine would be used as a screen to hide US imperialism in Latin America.<\/span><\/p>\n In a strange inversion of roles, French President Emmanuel Macron presented himself as the European Barack Obama facing up to the US Charles De Gaulle, as played by Donald Trump. Macron symbolically declared war, stating: \u00ab Let us sign no more commercial agreements with powers which do not respect the Paris Agreement \u00bb (which means no more agreements with the United States) \u2013 an odd way to defend multilateralism!<\/span><\/p>\n The French President began with Donald Trump\u2019s implicit assessment \u2013 the crisis of the current \u00ab liberal Westphalian order \u00bb\u00a0[2<\/a><\/strong><\/span>]. This means the crisis of nation-States who are badly shaken by economic globalisation. But this strategy was only intended to more efficiently oppose the solution proposed by the White House, which he qualified as the \u00ab law of the strongest \u00bb. He, therefore, described the French solution, \u00ab based around three principles – the first is the respect for sovereignty, the very foundation of our charter; the second is the reinforcement of our regional cooperation, and the third is the implementation of more robust international guarantees \u00bb.<\/span><\/p>\n But then his speech zoomed off into the stratosphere to end in a lyrical exaltation, during which Emmanuel Macron allowed himself a moment of juvenile hypocrisy reaching the limits of schizophrenia.<\/span><\/p>\n –>\u00a0As an example of \u00ab the respect for sovereignty \u00bb, he called for a refusal to \u00ab substitute oneself for the Syrian people \u00bb when we decide who will become their leader\u2026 while at the same time forbidding President el-Assad to present himself for election by his compatriots.<\/span><\/p>\n –>\u00a0Concerning the \u00ab reinforcement of regional cooperation \u00bb, he mentioned the support offered by the African Union to the French anti-terrorist operation in the Sahel. But this operation was in reality only the land-based wing of a larger plan directed by AfriCom, for which the US army supplied the airborne wing. The African Union itself has no real army as such and acts only to legalise a colonial operation. Similarly, the sums invested for the development of the Sahel – which the French President quoted not in Euros, but in dollars – mixes true African projects with foreign aid for development. The impotence of this endeavour has long been clear to all.<\/span><\/p>\n –>\u00a0Concerning \u00ab the implementation of more robust international guarantees \u00bb, he announced the struggle against inequalities which should be addressed by the G7 summit in Biarritz. This was simply a way of affirming, once again, Western leadership over the rest of the world, Russia and China included. He claimed that \u00ab the time when a club of rich countries could alone define the balance of the world is long over \u00bb, and promised to \u2026 present a report of the decisions taken by the major Western powers before the next General Assembly. Again, he proclaimed that the \u00ab G7 should be the motor \u00bb of the struggle against inequality undertaken by the UNO.<\/span><\/p>\n Speaking in his turn, Iranian President Cheikh Hassan Rohani described in detail the way in which the White House is destroying, one by one, the principles of International Law\u00a0[3<\/a><\/strong><\/span>].<\/span><\/p>\n He reminded us that the 5+1 agreement (JCPoA) had been validated by the Security Council, which had called upon numerous institutions for their support (resolution 2231), and that Donald Trump\u2019s USA had withdrawn from the agreement, negating the signature of his predecessor and the principle of the continuity of state. He emphasised that, as attested by twelve consecutive AIEA reports, Iran has conformed and is still conforming to its obligations. He expressed his indignation at President Trump\u2019s call to disobey the UNO resolution and the threat he has addressed against those who respect it.<\/span><\/p>\n He finished by recalling a few facts – Iran fought Saddam Hussein, the Taliban and Daesh before the United States (which was at that time supporting them) – one way of emphasising the fact that for a long time, the about-faces by the USA do not correspond to the logic of Law, but to the logic of its own hidden interests.<\/span><\/p>\n This debate, not for or against the United States, but for or against Donald Trump, was organised around two main arguments:<\/span> For the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sergue\u00ef Lavrov, this debate hides a problem which goes even deeper. \u00ab On one hand, we see the reinforcement of the polycentric principles of the world order, (\u2026) the aspiration of the people to preserve their sovereignty and work with models of development which are compatible with their national, cultural and religious identities. On the other, we see the desire of several Western states to preserve their self-proclaimed status as “world leaders” and to hinder the objective and irreversible process of the establishment of multipolarity \u00bb, he stated\u00a0[4<\/a><\/strong><\/span>].<\/span><\/p>\n From that point, it is no longer pertinent for Moscow to argue with President Trump, nor even the United States, but with the Westerners in general. Sergue\u00ef Lavrov went as far as drawing a parallel with the Munich Agreements of 1938. At that time, France and the United Kingdom signed an alliance with Germany and Italy. It\u2019s true that this event is remembered today in Western Europe as an act of cowardice on the part of France and Britain faced with the demands of the Nazis, but it remains engraved in Russian memory as the decisive step which triggered the Second World War. While Western historians seek to decide who took this decision and who followed the movement, Russian historians note only one thing \u2013 that none of the Western Europeans assumed their responsibilities.<\/span><\/p>\n Extending his study, Sergue\u00ef Lavrov no longer denounced the infringements to the Law, but to international structures. He observed that the Westerners attempt to force the people to enter into military alliances against their will and threaten certain States who wish to choose their partners themselves. Alluding to the Jeffrey Feltman affair\u00a0[5<\/a><\/strong><\/span>], he denounced the attempts to control the administration of the UNO, and force it to assume the role which should be played by the member-States, and finally, to use the General Secretariat to manipulate them.<\/span><\/p>\n He noted the desperate nature of these attempts, observing, for example, the inefficiency of fifty years of the US blockade of Cuba. He stigmatised the British desire to judge and condemn without trial by using their rhetoric of \u00ab highly probable \u00bb.<\/span><\/p>\n Sergue\u00ef Lavrov concluded by emphasising that all this Western disorder did not prevent the rest of the world from cooperating and developing. He recalled the \u00ab Greater Eurasian Partnership \u00bb, mentioned at the Valda\u00ef Forum in 2016 by President Putin to complete President Xi\u2019s \u00ab Belt and Road Initiative \u00bb. This vast initiative, which was at first given a chilly reception by China, is now supported by the Collective Security Treaty, the Eurasian Economic Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States, BRICS, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. Counter-propositions by Australia, Japan and the European Union were still-born.<\/span><\/p>\n While Western representatives have the habit of announcing their projects in advance and discussing them, Russian diplomats only speak of them when they are already underway and are sure to succeed.<\/span><\/p>\n To sum up, the strategy of the containment of Russia and China, dreamed up by British deputy Halford J. Mackinder\u00a0[6<\/a><\/strong><\/span>] and clarified by US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezi\u0144ski\u00a0[7<\/a><\/strong><\/span>], has failed. The world\u2019s centre of gravity is being displaced to the East, not against the Westerners, but by their fault\u00a0[8<\/a>].<\/span><\/p>\n Drawing the first practical conclusions from these analyses, Syrian Vice-Prime Minister, Walid al-Moallem, demanded on the following day at the tribune of the General Assembly the immediate withdrawal of the occupying troops of the United States, France and Turkey\u00a0[9<\/a>].<\/span><\/p>\n Thierry Meyssan<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Translation<\/span> [1<\/a>] \u201cRemarks by Donald Trump to the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly<\/a>\u201d, by Donald Trump, Voltaire Network<\/em>, 25 September 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n [2<\/a>] \u00ab Discours d\u2019Emmanuel Macron devant la 73e s\u00e9ance de l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e g\u00e9n\u00e9rale des Nations unies<\/a> \u00bb, par Emmanuel Macron, R\u00e9seau Voltaire<\/em>, 25 septembre 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n [3<\/a>] \u201cRemarks by Hassan Rohani to the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly<\/a>\u201d, by Hassan Rohani, Voltaire Network<\/em>, 25 September 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n [4<\/a>] \u201cRemarks by Sergey Lavrov to the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly<\/a>\u201d, by Sergey Lavrov, Voltaire Network<\/em>, 28 September 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n [5<\/a>] \u201cGermany and the UNO against Syria<\/a>\u201d, \u201cHow the administration of the UNO is organising the war<\/a>\u201d, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Pete Kimberley, Voltaire Network<\/em>, 28 January 2016 and 5 September 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n [6<\/a>] \u201cThe geographical pivot of history\u201d, Halford J. Mackinder, The Geographical Journal<\/em>, 1904, 23, pp. 421\u201337.<\/span><\/p>\n [7<\/a>] The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives<\/em>, Zbigniew Brzezi\u0144ski, Basic Books. 1997.<\/span><\/p>\n [8<\/a>] \u201cThe Geopolitics of American Global Decline<\/a>\u201d, by Alfred McCoy, Tom Dispatch<\/em> (USA<\/span>), Voltaire Network<\/em>, 22 June 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n [9<\/a>] \u201cRemarks by Walid Al-Moualem to the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly<\/a>\u201d, by Walid Al-Moualem, Voltaire Network<\/em>, 29 September 2018<\/span><\/p>\nWorld collapse according to Donald Trump<\/h2>\n
\n–>\u00a0It is opposed to the structures and treaties of globalisation (that is to say, from the point of view of the White House, transnational financial imperialism), notably the UN Human Rights Council, the International Criminal Court, and UNRWA. Of course, this is not a claim for torture (which was legitimised by George Bush Jr. in his day) nor crime, nor starving the Palestinians, but the destruction of the organisations which instrumentalise their object in order to achieve other goals.<\/span>
\n–>\u00a0Concerning the migrations from Latin America to the United States, and also within the interior of the South American continent itself, the US intends to end them by treating the problem at its roots. For the White House, the problem results from the rules imposed by globalist Treaties, notably NAFTA. President Trump has therefore negotiated a new agreement with Mexico which links exports to respect for the social rights of Mexican workers. He intends to return to the original Monroe doctrine \u2013 meaning that the multinationals will no longer be able to interfere in the governing of the continent.<\/span><\/p>\nThe defence of the old world by Emmanuel Macron and Hassan Rohani<\/h2>\n
Sergue\u00ef Lavrov presents the post-Western world<\/h2>\n
\n–>\u00a0The White House is destroying the system which has so well benefited the international financial elites (Macron).<\/span>
\n–>\u00a0The White House is no longer even pretending to respect international Law (Rohani).<\/span><\/p>\n
\n Pete Kimberley<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n