Macron urges support for the UN and criticizes Gaza conditions in General Assembly address
Emmanuel Macron used his UN General Assembly speech to defend multilateralism and international law, criticize the lack of humanitarian access in Gaza and violence in the West Bank, and reaffirm support for Ukraine. He also proposed wartime moratoriums and a joint open-source AI effort, while his remarks about Hamas’s activity in the West Bank drew a clarification from a French diplomatic source.
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First reported among our outlets by CNews (France), · most coverage from South Korea (3), France (3), United Kingdom (2), China (2)
What the parties said
France
"Hamas has never struck in the West Bank,"
The question put to us, in very simple terms, is whether we want to live in this state of nature, with a kind of return to the law of the jungle, or in a civilised international…
"Rather, we must come together to build an open-source frontier model, a cutting-edge model."
United States
President Trump ended the war between Israel and Hamas, freed all living hostages, returned the bodies of the deceased to their loved ones, and is now leading the implementation…
Coverage
CNews · France21 Sep 04:51Donald Trump will meet Emmanuel Macron in New York on Monday ahead of the United Nations General Assembly
France 24 · France22 Sep 20:08Macron urges world to 'stand firm' against 'abuse of power by empires' in final UN speech
The rhetoric of defeat that is giving way to abuse of power by empires, threatening the sovereignty of some nations
Le Monde · France22 Sep 20:07“A spectacle that makes us all feel ashamed”: Images of Emmanuel Macron’s speech at the UN General Assembly
Fox News · United States23 Sep 12:00Lost in translation: Israel, Huckabee blast Macron over Hamas comments as France clarifies wording
Approximately 72,000 Palestinians have been reported killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry
The Times of Israel · Israel24 Sep 11:06Ambassador Leiter says he’s ‘full of hope’ for son seriously wounded in West Bank ramming attack
who criticized Israeli actions in the West Bank in an address to the UN and said Hamas had never been active there.
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RIA Novosti · Russia22 Sep 20:57Macron pounds fist on podium at UN General Assembly while speaking about Palestine
Palestinian official accuses Israel of 'mass detention' in West Bank
dismissed US President Donald Trump's claims of having secured peace in Gaza
China Daily · ChinaUS, Israel clash with Macron on Gaza stance
is building, day by day, the impossibility of a project that should be based on respect for the legitimate right of the Palestinian people to exist
The Hankyoreh · South KoreaDespite UN warning of a “nuclear-weapons-level risk like during the Cold War”… Trump “flatly rejects AI regulation”
The Korea Herald · South Korea23 Sep 02:13In UN farewell, Macron denounces Trump's Gaza diplomacy as spectacle of shame
President Trump ended the war between Israel and Hamas, freed all living hostages, returned the bodies of the deceased to their loved ones, and is now leading the implementation…
Yonhap News Agency · South Korea23 Sep 22:33‘The UN is failing’… World leaders denounce monopoly on power in the Security Council
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Burnham and Macron give AI a voice at UN General Assembly… contrast with Trump
Der Spiegel · Germany23 Sep 12:25Emmanuel Macron takes aim at Israel and Donald Trump in his final UN speech
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El País · Spain22 Sep 19:21Trump threatens to annihilate Iran in an election-flavored speech to the UN General Assembly
BBC News · United Kingdom23 Sep 11:30Netanyahu calls Macron's remarks on West Bank in UN speech 'grotesque'
Look at what's happening in the West Bank, where day in, day out, we are seeing violations.
The Guardian · United Kingdom23 Sep 10:41Iran denies dropping preconditions amid ‘very productive’ three-hour UN talks in New York
Every time a few states, sometimes even in the name of international order, have tried to replace the people in order to change a regime or a system, they have plunged those…
Choose international order over ‘law of the jungle’, urges Macron
“The Geneva Conventions are being dismantled”
Clarín · Argentina23 Sep 11:00Iran downplays indirect talks with the US and other Middle East news
Hürriyet · Türkiye23 Sep 08:44Israeli Minister Smotrich’s “tourist” provocation
NDTV · India24 Sep 21:01Netanyahu Attacks UK, France, Turkey In Fiery UN Speech
The Hindu · India23 Sep 01:23Macron urges world to choose UN over ‘law of the jungle’
The question put to us, in very simple terms, is whether we want to live in this state of nature, with a kind of return to the law of the jungle, or in a civilized international…
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Israel denounces ‘grotesque absurdity’ of Macron’s UN remarks on West Bank
Daily Jang · Pakistan22 Sep 21:09French President Macron lashes out over Gaza diplomacy
Where accounts differ
What Macron meant when he said Hamas had never operated or been active in the West Bank
Macron’s reported wording described Hamas as never having operated, struck, or been active in the West Bank.
Hamas has never operated in the West Bank,
A French diplomatic source said he meant Hamas had never governed the West Bank, and described the wording as misinterpreted.
there had been a "misinterpretation".