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September 18, 2017 / 8:06 PM / a day ago

Trump says democracy must be restored in Venezuela soon

Steve Holland, Anthony Boadle



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U.S. President Donald Trump attends a working dinner with Latin American leaders in New York, U.S., September 18, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Monday he wanted democracy restored soon in Venezuela and warned that the United States might take additional measures to apply pressure on the oil-producing nation.
At a dinner with Latin American leaders on the fringes of the U.N. General Assembly, Trump said the Venezuelan people were starving and their country, once one of the wealthiest, was collapsing.
Brazilian President Michel Temer told reporters afterwards that all present at the dinner agreed on the need to ramp up international pressure on the Socialist government of President Nicolás Maduro but without intervening directly in Venezuela.
The United States has applied financial sanctions against Venezuela, the supplier of 10 percent of the oil it consumes, and Trump said his government is prepared to take additional steps if Maduro continues on a path to authoritarian rule.

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Saying the situation in Venezuela was “completely unacceptable,” Trump called for a full restoration of democracy and political freedoms. “We want it to happen very soon.”
Besides Temer, Trump invited presidents Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia, Juan Carlos Varela of Panama and Argentine Vice President Gabriela Michetti to the dinner with their foreign ministers.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets Brazil President Michel Temer (center R) during a working dinner with Latin American leaders in New York, U.S., September 18, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
At least 125 people have been killed in four months of protests against the Maduro government, which has resisted calls to bring forward the presidential election and instead set up a pro-Maduro legislative superbody called a Constituent Assembly that has overruled the country’s opposition-led Congress.
“To make matters worse, Maduro has defied his own people stealing power from their elected representatives to preserve his disastrous rule,” Trump said at the dinner.
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Maduro has blamed Venezuela’s financial troubles on an alleged “economic war” by domestic opponents and the United States.
Latin American governments have called for negotiations to resolve the crisis through a peaceful transition to democracy, especially Colombia and Brazil which have long borders with Venezuela and are receiving tens of thousands of Venezuelans fleeing the economic chaos and political turmoil.
While the Trump administration has imposed financial sanctions and Trump has called for tougher action, Latin American leaders have stuck to diplomatic sanctions and ruled out a military intervention, an option Trump has mentioned.
“Evidently, everyone at the table wants a democratic solution in Venezuela, but no one wants a foreign intervention,” Temer said.
Sanctions were not discussed at the dinner, the Brazilian leader said. “We are talking about verbal sanctions, with democratic words, diplomatic words,” Temer said.
Reporting by Steve Holland, Lisandra Paraguassú and Anthony Boadle; Editing by Peter Cooney and Mary Milliken







September 19, 2017 / 1:08 AM / Updated 2 hours ago

If threatened, U.S. will 'totally destroy' North Korea, Trump vows

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his standoff with North Korea over its nuclear challenge on Tuesday, threatening to “totally destroy” the country of 26 million people and mocking its leader, Kim Jong Un, as a “rocket man.”
In a hard-edged speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Trump offered a grim portrait of a world in peril, adopted a more confrontational approach to solving global challenges from Iran to Venezuela, and gave an unabashed defense of U.S. sovereignty.
“The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea,” Trump told the 193-member world body, sticking closely to a script.
As loud, startled murmurs filled the hall, Trump described Kim in an acid tone, saying, “Rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime.”
His remarks rattled world leaders gathered in the green-marbled General Assembly hall, where minutes earlier U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed for statesmanship, saying: “We must not sleepwalk our way into war.”
Trump’s most direct military threat to attack North Korea, in his debut appearance at the General Assembly, was his latest expression of concern about Pyongyang’s repeated launching of ballistic missiles over Japan and underground nuclear tests.
Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom crossed her arms during the speech.
“It was the wrong speech, at the wrong time, to the wrong audience,” Wallstrom later told the BBC.
A junior North Korean diplomat sat in the delegation’s front-row seat for Trump’s speech, the North Korean U.N. mission said. The mission did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would do everything in her power to ensure a diplomatic solution. “Anything else would lead to disaster,” she said.

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Trump’s saber-rattling rhetoric, with the bare-knuckled style he used to win election last November, was in contrast to the comments of some of his own Cabinet members who have stated a preference for a diplomatic solution.
Defense Secretary James Mattis, who earlier this month raised the prospect of a “massive military response” if needed, on Tuesday told Pentagon reporters that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was working to resolve the crisis diplomatically.
Interviewed by Fox News, Tillerson highlighted Washington’s policy of pressuring North Korea through sanctions.
”We have the strictest sanctions ever put in place. We do believe there are early signs of those having an effect,“ he said. ”Ultimately though we’re going to need the assistance of the neighbors in the region.”
Reaction in the United States to Trump’s speech was mixed.
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 19, 2017. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, tweeted that Trump, a fellow Republican, “gave a strong and needed challenge” to U.N. members to confront global challenges.
But Democrat Ed Markey of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee denounced Trump’s remarks, telling CNN the president had yet to exhaust his other options in encouraging Pyongyang to negotiate.
In a thunderous speech, 42 minutes long according to the official transcript, Trump took aim at Iran’s nuclear ambitions and regional influence, Venezuela’s collapsing democracy and the threat of Islamist extremists.
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠“Major portions of the world are in conflict and some in fact are going to hell,” he said.
His speech recalled the fiery nationalist language of his Jan. 20 inaugural address when he pledged to end what he called an “American carnage” of rusted factories and crime.
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His strongest words were directed at North Korea. He urged U.N. member states to work together to isolate the Kim government until it ceases its “hostile” behavior.
In an apparent prod at China, the North’s major trading partner, Trump said: “It is an outrage that some nations would not only trade with such a regime but would arm, supply and financially support a country that imperils the world with nuclear conflict.”
The U.N. Security Council has unanimously imposed nine rounds of sanctions on North Korea since 2006 and Guterres appealed for that 15-member body to maintain its unity.
Turning to Iran, Trump called the 2015 nuclear deal negotiated by his predecessor, Barack Obama, an embarrassment and hinted that he may not recertify the agreement when it comes up for a mid-October deadline.
“We cannot abide by an agreement if it provides cover for the eventual construction of a nuclear program,” he said. He said the Iranian government “masks a corrupt dictatorship behind the false guise of a democracy.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted a withering response: “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.”
French President Emmanuel Macron, in his U.N. speech, said his country would not close the door to negotiations over North Korea and staunchly defended the Iran nuclear deal. “Renouncing it would be a grave error,” Macron said.
Trump called the collapsing situation in Venezuela “completely unacceptable” and warned the United States was considering what further actions it can take. “We cannot stand by and watch,” he said.
Venezuela rejected Trump’s threats and said it was prepared to resist any U.S. actions, even a military invasion.
At what was billed as an “anti-imperialist” rally in Caracas, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro described Trump as “the new Hitler of international politics.”
Stocks, bonds and currency markets ended little changed on the day. “I think world markets have become complacent about North Korea,” said Scott Minerd, global chief investment officer of Guggenheim Partners.
Additional reporting by Michelle Nichols, Arshad Mohammed, John Irish, Parisa Hafezi, David Brunnstrom, Anthony Boadle and Yara Bayoumy at the UNITED NATIONS, Richard Leong in NEW YORK, Eric Beech in WASHINGTON, Dan Williams in JERUSALEM and Diego Oré in CARACAS; Writing by Steve Holland; Editing by Howard Goller
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Speech at UN sees Trump threaten Pyongyang – as it happened




Trump warns US may have to 'totally destroy North Korea' – video

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Amanda Holpuch in New York
Tuesday 19 September 2017 20.58 BST First published on Tuesday 19 September 2017 13.37 BST
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17h ago 15:30
Trump’s speaks loudly again as he discusses the threat of international terrorism.
He says the US is working with its allies in the Middle East to “crush” terrorists.
“Our country has achieved more against Isis in the last eight months,” says Trump, then it has in the years before combined. It’s unclear what measure he is using for achievement.
He thanks Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon for hosting refugees.
“The United States is a compassionate nation,” he says, before launching into a defense of his government’s efforts to reduce the refugee cap in the US.
18h ago 15:24

On Kim Jong-un: 'Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for him and his regime'

“Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for him and his regime,” says Trump, referring to Kim Jong-Un. He continues to say he hopes we don’t have to destroy North Korea.
He has moved on to Iran, saying the nuclear deal is “an embarrassment to the United States”.
Trump has been speaking for more than 20 minutes.
Trump refers to Kim as ‘Rocket Man’. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Updated at 3.40pm BST
18h ago 15:20

'US may have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea'

He says the member states must work together to confront “rogue regimes”.
“If the righteous many do not confront the wicked few, then evil will triumph,” he says
14 minutes into the speech, Trump mentions North Korea, speaking about the death of American student Otto Warmbier after being detained by the North Korean government.
He says the “entire world” is threatened by the nuclear threat in North Korea.
“If it [the US] forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea,” Trump says.
Updated at 3.38pm BST
18h ago 15:20
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18h ago 15:16

'We want harmony and friendship, not conflict and strife'

Trump says the United States will no longer be taken advantage of in deals it makes with other countries.
“Our citizens have paid the ultimate price to defend our freedom,” he says. They have also fought to defend other countries represented in the room, he says.
“It is an eternal credit to the American character,” that we have fought wars abroad but have not “sought territorial expansion” and not imposed our way of life on other people.
“We want harmony and friendship, not conflict and strife,” he says.
Updated at 3.20pm BST
18h ago 15:14

Trump: I will always put America first

Trump speaks about protecting the rights given by God, emphasizing the word “God” and pausing before he continues.
“In America, we do not seek to impose our life on anyone,” he says but the US wants to shine as an example.
He says he was elected to give power to the people “where it belongs”.
“As president of the United States” he will always put America first, he says. He gets louder, saying that’s what all countries should do. He gets some claps for that remark.
Updated at 3.15pm BST
18h ago 15:12
Trump talks about citizens needing to be able to achieve their dreams and for children to be able to live in a world without hate.
“The success of the United Nations depends on the independent strength of its members,” he says.
He acknowledges that all countries have different goals, but the “beautiful vision” that led to the creation of the UN allows people to work side-by-side. Trump has criticized the UN repeatedly in the past.
Trump speaks. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
Updated at 3.17pm BST
18h ago 15:08
Trump highlights breakthroughs in technology and medicine. Then says every day is filled with new threats.
“Rogue regimes” support terrorists and threaten other countries.
“Authority and authoritarian powers seek to collapse” systems and alliances that “tiled the war toward freedom” after the second world war, he says.
“We meet at a time of both immense promise and great peril,” he says.
Saying it’s up to “us” whether the world “is lifted to new heights” or “a valley of disrepair”.
18h ago 15:06

Trump begins speech to UN and touts US economy

US president Donald Trump is making his debut speech to the general assembly, saying it is a “profound honor” to represent the American people from his home city.
He expresses thanks to all the world leaders who have offered help and condolences in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. Thankfully, he says, the US is doing well.
The economy is at an “all-time high”. He says the country is experiencing job growth like it has not seen “in a very long time”.
“Our military will soon be the strongest it has ever been,” he says.
Updated at 3.13pm BST
18h ago 15:03
Temer speaks about international terrorism and organized crime. He speaks about the need for countries to commit to human rights.
“We reject racism,” Temer says. “We reject xenophobia in all its forms”.
He expresses concern about the crisis in Venezuela and says Brazil stands with the people of Venezuela. “There is no more room for alternatives to democracy,” he says.
Temer has just wrapped up, which means Trump is next on stage.
18h ago 14:53
Brazil’s president Michel Temer is now addressing the general assembly.
“Today we certainly need the UN more than before, and I’m talking about a UN that is increasingly effective,” he says.
But, reform is still needed, Temer says. He wants the security council expanded.
He says protectionist countries threaten progress and development. “We reject exacerbated forms of nationalism,” Temer says.
He expresses support for the Paris climate agreement and says Brazil is at the forefront with its “low-carbon economy”. He touts a reduction in deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.
Temer advocates for nuclear disarmament, saying Brazil has shown it could master nuclear weapons, but chooses not to have them.
Updated at 2.53pm BST
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At UN, Temer advocates Brazil more open to world




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  • 19/09/2017 12h54
  • New York
Paola De Orte, correspondent from Agência Brasil
President Temer speaks at the 72nd United Nations General Assembly, in New YorkBeto Barata/PR
In his speech to world leaders today (Sep. 19) at the 72nd United Nations General Assembly, in New York, President Michel Temer said that Brazil should be more open to the world and show more concern with key topics on the international agenda, like North Korea's nuclear program, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the crisis facing Venezuela.
Temer highlighted the need to reform the UN itself, “particularly the Security Council,” and went on to mention the importance of the Paris Agreement and the efforts against climate change. “Deforestation alarms us, especially in the Amazon,” he stated.
He mentioned the “serious threat” of recent nuclear tests conducted by North Korea, pointing out that “Brazil vehemently condemns such acts.” Temer also talked about the signing of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, slated for tomorrow (20), proposed by Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Austria, and Ireland, finalized in July this year. Brazil is one of the 26 countries expected to ratify the deal, which will only be brought into effect after the adherence of 50 nations.
Also concerning global peace and security, the president mentioned the halted talks between Israel and Palestine, and reiterated Brazil's support for a two-state solution. On Syria, Temer said that “the answer one must seek is essentially political.” He went as far as to mention terrorism, describing it as “an evil that feeds on the many forms of fundamentalism and exclusion.”
Human rights
Temer referred to Brazil as a free country, “ethnically, culturally, religiously, and intellectually diverse,” mentioning international human rights deals signed by the country, the welcoming of refugees, and the granting of humanitarian visas to Haitians and Syrians.
“The human rights situation in Venezuela is still deteriorating,” he said. “In South America, there is no longer room for alternatives to democracy.”
Economy
In his address, Temer also talked about economic issues, and criticized  protectionism as an answer to economic challenges. He advocated the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO), saying that Brazil advocates “a system of open international trade founded on rules.” He declared that, at the WTO the ministerial conference, to be held in December in Buenos Aires, problems like the access to agricultural markets and the elimination of subsidies to agriculture will have to be addressed.
On domestic topics, Michel Temer mentioned structural reforms currently in course in Brazil—the tax, labor, and pension overhauls—and said that the country is “bringing back fiscal balance,” adding that “the new Brazil rising from the reforms is a country more open to the world.”

Translated by Fabrício Ferreira
Edited by: Augusto Queiroz / Nira Foster
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