UN Chief Urges Hope In World Seeming To Fall Apart
Source: Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The United Nations chief called for world leaders Wednesday to join the international campaign to ease the plight of nearly unprecedented numbers of refuges, the displaced and victims of violence at home who need shelter, food and medical care in a world racked by raging wars and the swift-spreading and deadly Ebola epidemic.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said leaders must find "seeds of hope" in the turmoil and despair of a world that may seem like it's falling apart with people crying out for protection from greed and inequality.
"Not since the end of the Second World War have there been so many refugees, displace people and aylum seekers. Never before has the United Nations been asked to reach so many people with emergency food assistance and other life-saving supplies," Ban said in his state of the world address at the opening of the U.N. General Assembly's annual ministerial meeting.
U.S. President Barack Obama, taking the podium soon after, told the presidents, prime ministers and monarchs in the newly renovated assembly chamber that the world is at "a crossroads between war and peace" with no nation insulated from global forces.
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