President Robert Mugabe this week
joins 130 other heads of state and government in New York for the 68th annual United
Nations General Assembly. Mugabe, accompanied by the First Lady, arrived at JF Kennedy
International Airport on Saturday and will address the General Assembly on
Thursday.
The ongoing Syrian crisis and the
toxic haze of recent chemical weapons use, clouds the diplomatic horizon at the
global gathering as delegates confront issues of war, peace and widening
humanitarian disasters.
The 68th session, held
under the theme "Millennium Development Goals and Other Internationally
Agreed Development Goals for Persons With Disabilities" will go through
174 assembly agenda items from hot button political issues, to vital
peacekeeping operations, and budgetary items to a gaggle of the usual
perfunctory anti-Israel resolutions, and slap on the wrist items ranging from
the question of the Falkland Islands to the continuing American economic embargo
on Cuba.
Mugabe will have a slight spring
in his step after his emphatic election win on July 31, but will rail at old
foes Britain and the United States for claiming his victory was
"flawed" even as the African Union and SADC passed the elections as
free and credible. The United States maintains a travel ban on Mugabe, but he
can still attend United Nations events.
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