The Independent | Live: Starmer addresses 79th UN General Assembly as Middle East tensions rise and Ukraine war rages @theindependent | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 5 days ago.
Sir Keir Starmer will make his United Nations debut as prime minister with a promise to deliver “global leadership”.

The PM’s two-day visit to New York comes as Israel and Hezbollah exchange fire across the Lebanon border and while Ukraine continues to push for permission to use UK and US-supplied missiles to strike at targets within Russia.

Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky is in the US lobbying for support, although so far US president Joe Biden has resisted calls for American missiles to be targeted at airbases and other facilities in Russia.

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