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*Haiti's transitional presidential council calls for permanent peace mission. *Palestinian authority calls for immediate peace plan to stop Gaza genocide. teleSUR

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00:00The General Debate of the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly continued

00:05Thursday in its third day.

00:07Leaders of the world have been taking the floor during the day to express their concern

00:11about issues of global importance.

00:14Our Special Envoy to the event Jorge Estosa with details on today's session.

00:21In this third day of the General Debate here at the United Nations in New York, at the

00:27very end of the morning we heard the representative of the Transitional Council of Haiti, we're

00:36talking a country that is in the middle of a chaos, of crisis, asking and asking especially

00:43a reflection to the international community, to the United Nations to approve a permanent

00:50mission of peace in Haiti because for the moment there's only a transitional mission

00:57of peace only with policemen of Kenya, only 400 has arrived, expected to in 2500 by January.

01:07But most definitely only they could secure the airport, gangs are still ruling a good

01:13chunk of the life of Haiti, he's asking that.

01:17He also salutes the neighbors of the community in Springfield, Ohio, where the former President

01:26Donald Trump were trying to trash all the migrants saying that the Haitians who live

01:33in that city are eating cats and dogs.

01:36He said that's a clear sign of xenophobia and racism.

01:41Before that, the President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas has been talking here.

01:47He said that he was not coming here to respond to the lies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

01:54He said that 70% of Gaza has been destroyed.

02:00Definitely he's saying that denounce the U.S. and many of his allies to continue to provide

02:09arms and weapons.

02:11He's asking for a ceasefire immediately.

02:13He said the crimes and holocaust, he didn't say the holocaust, he said the genocide, that

02:21was the word he was using, needs to stop right away and he's proposing a peace plan in order

02:29to put an end to this war.

02:32At the end of the morning, the President of Uruguay was talking.

02:36In the afternoon, another countries of our region were talking about Costa Rica and Peru

02:41are going to be here in this third day.

02:45We get back to you now.

United Nations | 79th session of the UNGA continues

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