Reaction to Trump’s U. N. General Assembly speech.
Reaction from around the world to President Donald Trump’s speech Tuesday to the U. N. General Assembly:
— »This was a bombastic, nationalist speech. It must have been decades since one last heard a speech like that in the U. N. General Assembly. … This was a speech at the wrong time to the wrong audience. » Margot Wallstrom, foreign minister of Sweden.
— « In over 30 years in my experience with the U. N., I never heard a bolder or more courageous speech. » Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
— »Trump’s ignorant hate speech belongs in medieval times-not the 21st Century UN -unworthy of a reply. Fake empathy for Iranians fools no one. » Tweet from Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
— »No leader can come and question our democracy, can come and question our sovereignty. We do not accept threats from President Trump or whoever in this world. » Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza.
— »Syria, Cuba and Venezuela are (painted as) almost the worst dictatorships in the history of the humankind. » Konstantin Kosachev, head of the foreign affairs committee in the upper house of the Russian parliament. He said the speech was « contradictory, » mixing expressions of respect for nations’ sovereign rights with a « barefaced U. S. pretense to determine who has such rights and who does not. »
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