I have two key takeaways from the speeches of world leaders and the events unfolding on the sidelines of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly session. The first is on the subject of climate change, and the other on the possibility of the deployment of a Muslim-Arab peacekeeping force in Gaza. The UN General Assembly continues to bring together world leaders, some of whom represent the most powerful countries in the world. Their speeches, as we hear them, remind us of the current challenges that the world faces and how it may strategise to overcome them. Ironically, this gathering of the world leaders, as always, is dominated by a striking backdrop of great powers' competition, power struggles and material interests.

Tragic mistakes committed by some of the world leaders in the past continue to remind us that the idea of global history being shaped by dark episodes is unending. The General Assembly is the main organ of the United Nations, and its higher sense of purpose is to unite the world, which is not possible unless it builds and represents a global reality that is based on adherence to a consensus built around an uncompromising truth. Be it climate change or deployment of a peacekeeping force in Gaza, the moral obligation of all stakeholders is not to twist any reality but to try and develop a consensus on accurate aspects of a given reality.

First the climate change, and how the current session of the UN General Assembly clearly indicates that the world is more divided than united on the subject. In their address to the UN General Assembly, the leaders of two great........

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