ロシアのラブロフ外相が国連総会で、インドとブラジルの国連安保理常任理事国入りを改めて支持。
一方で、追加の常任理事国枠を西側諸国に与えるべきではないとして、ドイツと日本の加盟には反対する姿勢も示しました。
つまりロシアが求めているのは、単なる常任理事国の増加ではなく、西側に偏っている現在の構成を、インド、ブラジル、アフリカなど非西側諸国へ再配分する改革です。
今週はハンガリー、ポーランド、チェコ、スロバキアのV4諸国もインド支持を表明。
第二次大戦直後に作られた米・英・仏・露・中の5か国体制が、現在の人口、経済力、国際的影響力を反映していないことは、ますます明白になっています。
ただ、インドを支持しながら日本を「西側」として排除する主張には、ロシアの対日関係や現在の地政学的対立も色濃く反映されています。
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov bats for New Delhi, backs India's permanent UNSC bid at UNGA https://t.co/kazFXztNWW
🇮🇷🇺🇸Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has explained how the US scummed Iran:
“Previously we released American prisoners. The understanding was that they would release our money. We did our part. Several of the people that they had asked for were released.
The money came from South Korea. Qatar was supposed to transfer it to us. When we did our part, the United States did not follow through. We tested it, but it didn't work.
The United States gets what it wants, but it doesn't honor its commitment. In other words, we gave our money.
Even now, we remain committed. We don't want to fight. But certainly, if they strike us, we will defend ourselves.”
"It was not a pleasant remark to hear."
Kyodo News reports that there was "some bewilderment" within the Japanese government over Trump describing the United States and Communist China as “allies” during World War II.
A few days earlier, Takaichi Sanae argued that the UN Charter should be changed to remove Japan from its enemy state clauses. She sees the mention of Japan as something from the WW2 era that is no longer necessary.
However, the Trump-Xi summit featured speeches from both Xi and Trump that highlighting the fact that China and the US fought together as allies in WW2 (against Japan). The United States' official ally was the Republic of China, the government now based in Taiwan, not the communist forces who established the postwar People's Republic of China. When Japanese conservatives heard Trump telling Xi that "China" had been America's ally, they interpreted it as referring to the communists.
However, communist Chinese forces fought against Japan in the war. One of Trump's speeches at the summit brought up the term "gung-ho" as an example of US-China cooperation. It was a term adopted by a US Marine officer after he'd observed the communist 8th Route Army's resistance against Japan in the late 1930s.
Prime Minister Takaichi is reportedly trying to arrange a phone call with Trump as soon as possible so they can talk about the US-China summit.
Iran President Pezeshkian at the UN:
"Those who are terrorists and train terrorists tell us that we are terrorists."
"For two hundred years, Iran has not attacked any country. For two hundred years, we have always defended ourselves."
"They bombed and killed these children, with weapons supplied by America and Israel. They were guilty of nothing. They had committed no crime."
"In Gaza, they murdered more than eighty thousand innocent people."
"Then they say others are terrorists, these are the ones causing instability -- are we the ones causing instability?"
"Anyone they want to destroy, they label a terrorist."
"Palestine remains a wound on the body of the conscience of the international community, and Gaza remains a symbol of the failure of international mechanisms to prevent the suffering of civilians."
"Israel murders thousands of people in Gaza every week. But Iran was bombed while at the negotiating table."
"Yet Israel receives billions of dollars in free weapons as a reward, and it is licensed to bomb any capital it wishes."
"The nuclear bombs are in Israel, but the inspectors are in Iran. Israel kills, yet Iran is sanctioned, and this is a tragedy that would make anyone you tell laugh."
"We must not build a world in which military power replaces legitimacy, sanctions replace diplomacy, terror replaces politics, and war replaces dialogue."
"We have found our answer. We need power. Because a nation that cannot defend itself, they crush it in this world."
"Let him know: the Iranian nation, in the face of force, will not bow its head, and will make the aggressors regret it."
BREAKING:
Iran's FM Araghchi’s Stakeout Remarks at the U.N. on a Possible Seven-Day Plan with the U.S.:
"The seven-day timeline will start as soon as the U.S. accepts this plan.
So, if they accept this plan tomorrow, the seven days will start from tomorrow.
There are certain actions to be taken by the U.S., and we believe that these actions can be taken in four or five days. So on day six, the Strait will be open.
And on day seven, talks with the U.S. will begin for the final deal on mutually agreed subjects.
All the actions that the U.S. should take are not new. They are already in the MOU. They are already among the commitments of the U.S., so we don't see any difficulty in implementing them.
So I can tell you: if there is seriousness on the U.S. side to come to a deal and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, everything is now prepared.
They can accept this seven-day plan, at the end of which the Strait will be open."