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During the morning and evening sessions, UN member countries presented their national positions on global security, achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), work within multilateral institutions, and UN reform.
Almost all G20 member countries raised in their speeches the issue of implementing the SDGs at the national and international levels.
Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs Russian Federation, speaking to the participants of the General Assembly, noted that without mutual trust, the effective implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, as well as the solution of global tasks of ensuring food security and health, which play a critical role for developing countries, are impossible.
Brazilian President Michel Temer stressed the country's commitment to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals both at the national level and through international cooperation. During its Presidency of the Commonwealth of Portuguese Speaking Countries, Brazil has included the implementation of the 2030 Agenda as a key priority. Due to the fact that the fight against climate change is an important component of the SDGs, Brazil pays Special attention transition to a low-carbon economy. Currently, clean and renewable energy sources account for more than 40% of Brazil's energy mix, three times the global average. Brazil is a global leader in hydropower and bioenergy. President Temer also noted the country's commitment to develop partnerships with African countries due to cultural and historical ties.
India's Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj stressed that the complete eradication of poverty is a key priority for the Indian government. The problem of poverty can be solved in two ways: by increasing social assistance or expanding economic opportunities. The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has opted for the second path. All of the numerous programs in India have as their key goal of expanding economic opportunities for the poor, including Jan Dhan, Mudra, Ujjwala, Skill India, Digital India, Clean India (Clean India), Start-up India (Start-Up India) and Growing India (Stand-Up India). India positions itself as a partner ready to share experience with developing countries to overcome poverty. In 2017, India, together with the UN, launched the India-UN Development Partnership Fund. Sushma Swaraj also noted that India is serious about the full implementation of its obligations to protect environment, including under the Paris Climate Agreement. Respect for nature is rooted in the 5,000-year-old philosophy of Buddhism.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi emphasized the need to help developing countries implement the 2030 Agenda in accordance with their national needs and priorities. He called on countries to ensure that the 2030 Agenda is reflected in national strategies development. In his opinion, North-South cooperation should be used as the main mechanism for development while realizing the potential of South-South and triangular cooperation.
It is expected that the main focus of the speech of the President of the Republic of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, was the development of the African continent. According to him, political will and commitment from global leaders are needed to deal with the challenges that arise from the unchanging structure of global economic institutions. Many developed countries of the world are still fueling their development with the resources of African countries. The continent also continues to lose significant resources due to illegal financial flows. Money laundering, tax avoidance, corruption and transfer pricing by multinational companies are significant challenges to economic growth and stability.
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop drew participants' attention to the need for the United Nations to be more efficient and agile in order to successfully implement the SDGs. The UN development system should be more focused on sustainable economic development to create employment opportunities and strengthen partnerships with the private sector.
Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada spoke about the national experience in implementing the SDGs using the example of supporting indigenous peoples.
The President of the Republic of Korea, Moon Jae-in, focused on Korea's achievements as an aid donor in his speech. Thus, over the past 5 years, the Republic of Korea has increased the amount of financial assistance to refugees by 15 times, and last year joined the members of the “20+ million donors” club of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In line with the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement, the Republic of Korea supports the transition to sustainable green energy in developing countries through the Global Green Growth Institute and the Green Climate Fund. With regard to the SDGs on gender equality, Korea has already reached the target of 30% of the cabinet being women ministers.

Dear President, Secretary General, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen!

Our world is unpredictable. Much of the unpredictability is due to climate change. Climate change can be balanced by a rapid technological breakthrough in our wasteful lifestyle. And yet it is easy to see that the development of technology, including the rapid spread of digital technologies among billions of people at the present time, complicates the understanding of our future, although there is no doubt that there is potential for positive changes in this.

The new world offers opportunities. Unfortunately, the risks also increase as a result. To reap the emerging benefits and deal with the challenges, we need flexible and fast action at the global level.

Estonia, a nation of just over a million people, takes seriously the fact that unpredictability is especially difficult for those who are inherently weak to deal with. It's about the poor, people with handicapped, children and the elderly. It is also difficult for those whose weakness is a consequence of discrimination – often women, ethnic and religious minorities. After regaining independence, Estonia itself went through a rapid period of change lasting a quarter of a century. As our economic and social statistics show, we have done quite well in protecting the weaker members of our society, while modifying and developing our economy in the process. We know it's possible.

We have long been under pressure from the Hobbesian worldview of the international community, according to which freedom can be accompanied by chaos, and bad state structure better than not having it. Thus, our principles are similar to the principles of John Locke - this is the principle rule of law, the system of control and balance, as well as the rights of a private person. It is important that Locke initially believed in the postulates of Thomas Hobbes, but changed his mind when, during a diplomatic mission, he observed the Brandenburg civil society - they preached a way of life in which different ideas, according to him, had the right to "quiet coexistence ". This line of thought haunts us today.

Now we want to offer our know-how in terms of empathic and participatory development in the global discussion. Estonia wants to become an elected member of the UN Security Council for 2020-2021. As a small state that has been occupied for 50 years out of 100 years of its history, we are sensitive to the problems of all states and people who cannot resist global currents.

There are too many countries in the world that suffer from unresolved conflicts. These are countries that could take care of their own populations and make their contribution on a global level if we quickly resolved the conflicts that hinder them, or, worse, threaten to split them.

The ongoing military aggression in eastern Ukraine continues to generate conflict and cause civilian casualties, including the loss of a member of the OSCE monitoring mission. The Crimean peninsula, like part of Georgia, is still occupied. The protracted conflicts in Transnistria and Nagorno-Karabakh have not been resolved.

There are many countries torn apart by conflicts that we have seen, but failed to extinguish in time to prevent the worst.

The world has lost half a million people in Syria. Estonia supports an international and independent mechanism adopted in December 2016 that helps to investigate based on international law most serious crimes committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011 and bring to justice all those responsible.

We cannot overlook the increasing suffering of the Yemeni people or ignore the fate of the Rohingya Bengalis. We should do more in terms of humanitarian measures to combat the spread of hunger, disease and epidemics in this country. Our common efforts to fight hunger and deprivation are also very important in South Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria.

Not all states use their means, efforts and technological advances for the benefit of their people. North Korea represents great danger for peace on our planet.

World stability is also threatened by dangers that are no longer linked to one particular country. The threat of terrorism is spreading rapidly. It started with attempts by failed states to deceive people, with disillusionment, and spread all over the world.

The key to success in the fight against terrorism and extremism lies in our cooperation at all levels - state, regional and global. The Secretary General's initiative to reorganize the UN counter-terrorism structure makes the efforts of the whole world more coordinated and transparent. Effective counter-terrorism measures and the protection of human rights are mutually reinforcing, not conflicting goals.

Ladies and Gentlemen! All of the above problems, which are already exacerbated by the real impact climate change and which, unfortunately, will only intensify in the future, have led to the largest number of migrants in the entire history of the world.

As with all global problems, the UN is the organization that must work out the solution and agree on its implementation. Last year we came to an agreement through the adoption of the New York Declaration on Refugees and Migrants. We need to address the causes and causes of illegal migration in order to improve border control and combat human trafficking.

This includes facilitating legal migration opportunities. I want to emphasize that our common aspirations are based on such values ​​as humanism and solidarity. The bitter lesson taught us by Estonian history, when we were scattered around the world as a result of the occupations and the Second World War, shows how important empathy is for refugees fleeing the savagery and hardships of wartime.

If we are to address the root causes of migration, then we need to address climate change. It has become decisive question our era. A common global effort to combat climate change will never be possible without the stewardship of the UN and the platform offered by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. We believe that Fiji's Presidency of the 23rd Conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will deliver concrete results, building on last year's Paris achievements.

Ladies and Gentlemen! As society's response to the risks associated with climate change shows, serious and common problems can be resolved with public participation. Civil society is a basic prerequisite for empathic and participatory development. And yet in last years we have witnessed a reduction in the sphere of influence of civil society. This trend should be reversed.

One of the most significant guarantees of empathic and inclusive development, the principles of democracy and the rule of law is the deep penetration of gender equality into all spheres of life. It has been proven that equal treatment of women and men has a decisive influence on overcoming poverty. The Estonian Welfare Development Program for the period 2016-2023 includes various areas, from employment and social inclusion to ensuring equal opportunities in terms of applying one's abilities in all areas of activity. Our goal is the balanced participation of women and men at all levels of decision-making and management, both in the public and private sectors.

At the same time, in no case should we forget about the gender balance in conflict situations. Involving women in crisis prevention and resolution, as well as in the peacebuilding process at an early stage, reduces the likelihood of conflicts recurring. Therefore, we must support the participation of women in the peace process and celebrate them as agents of change with great potential. We must consistently apply UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and related resolutions related to women, peace and security at all levels. The adoption last year of the Commission's Gender Peace Strategy was an important milestone along that path.

In order for women to fulfill their full role in society, gender-based violence must be eliminated. We must ensure that survivors are treated with dignity and that perpetrators are held accountable for their crimes. Estonia continues to support action against gender-based violence that addresses the reproductive needs of the most vulnerable women and girls, for example through the UN Population Fund in Ukraine in 2017 and by supporting the #shedecides campaign.

I am convinced that the commendable efforts of Secretary General Guterres to increase the number of women in decision-making at the UN will inspire all the women of the world. It also has a concrete impact on the development of UN policy as it makes the process more empathic and inclusive.

Dear friends!

Digital change is happening everywhere. Now the most noticeable effect on us of this fact has been the obsolescence of the concept of geography. Attacks carried out in cyberspace know no boundaries. Friendly and partnership relations created in cyberspace do not know state borders. It brings us all closer in a global sense. Digitally efficient global civil society functions better when states provide their people with secure means of electronic communication. In the analog world, it's easy to identify yourself, even to people you don't know, because the government has given us passports. The same need for identification exists in cyberspace, but as yet few countries offer the means for secure identification. States must advance in this area and ensure that their people are able to protect them, safely conduct various transactions on the Internet and communicate.

But greater reliance on e-services has led to greater vulnerability in cyberspace. This does not mean that we can or should try to put a hold on digital development. We must continue our efforts to analyze how to apply international law in relation to the use of ICTs, especially in relation to the possible use of the principle of due diligence, retaliatory measures, the right of self-defence, as well as international humanitarian law. I call on all states to accede to the Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention if they have not already done so.

I would also like to recall the statement of the Internet Freedom Coalition, which expressed serious concern about the growing trend of deliberate and state-supported interference with both the receipt of information and its dissemination on the Internet. No one should be left without the right to peaceful assembly or the freedom of association and expression, whether it be physical presence or action via the Internet.

Dear friends!

To successfully address all of the challenges mentioned above, we need a strong United Nations. Estonia endorses the proposed general secretary UN reform agenda. We actively support the efforts being made to integrate the reform of the UN peace and security architecture with the reform of the UN development system. We are glad that conflict prevention and peacebuilding, the creation of societies capable of overcoming weaknesses, is coming to the fore.

Estonia proceeds from the application of the principles of involvement and empathy under the leadership of the Second Committee of the UN General Assembly. We are all interested in seeing the second committee decide on global problems and we look forward to your good will in achieving this goal.

As a member of the Working Group on Accountability, Connectivity and Transparency, Estonia works closely with many states to improve the working methods of the Security Council and the UN as a whole.

We need empathy and engagement also in the Security Council. Therefore, Estonians hope that they will be able to get the status non-permanent member for the period 2020-2021

We restored our independence 26 years ago, but we have been participating in UN peacekeeping missions for 22 years now. As a small state, we take care of everyone who is defenseless in this world. As a digital society, we present our story of hope and rapid change as a nation emerging from poverty and occupation, able to care for its citizens and contribute to multilateral cooperation. As a digital state, we consider transparency and closeness to the people to be the responsibility of the state and strongly support decision-making and rules-based transparent processes. We are with those who want to revitalize the UN to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

Thank you for attention!

The 72nd session of the UN General Assembly opens

The 72nd session of the General Assembly, the main deliberative body of the world organization, opens at the UN. In the next two weeks, the leaders of 193 member countries of the organization, as well as representatives of Palestine and the Vatican, which have the status of an observer state, and the EU will speak from the UN rostrum.

The new session, chaired by Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak, will open at 15.00 (22.00 Moscow time). After this, a minute of silence is traditionally announced for prayer or reflection.

US President Donald Trump proposed holding the summit on the eve of the UN General Assembly session. The UN reform plan will be discussed by the heads of the strongest states on September 18.
Vladimir Putin will not take part in the summit of the strongest states, nor in the session of the UN General Assembly itself. Instead, the Russian Federation will be represented by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, whose speech at the General Assembly is scheduled only for the third day of the session, September 21. The main intrigue of the upcoming summit on UN reform is whether Russia will remain a permanent member of the UN Security Council and the holder of the right of veto in this body after it is held.
Some world politicians have previously proposed taking away the right of veto from Russia. Ukraine is especially active in supporting this idea. According to experts in the field of international law, there are legal justifications for "restraining" Russia in the UN: in particular, there are questions about how it became the legal successor of the USSR in 1991, having won the status of one of the founders of the United Nations. Lawyers remind that no vote on this issue was held at the UN, which means that there is every reason to question the legitimacy of such succession.

Haley, U.S. Permanent Representative to the World Organization, said the Trump administration's UN reform proposals were "supported by 120 states." "120 countries is an impressive number," she said, and they will all take part in a one-day meeting to discuss these proposals. Assistant to the President of the United States national security McMaster noted that Trump at the summit "will express support for the efforts of UN Secretary-General António Guterres on reforms."
Haley briefly outlined two topics that will be discussed at the summit, among others: the need to reorganize the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) and increase the effectiveness of peacekeeping operations.
When asked by one of the journalists whether the summit is planning to touch upon the issue of increasing the number of permanent members of the UN Security Council, which India has long sought, Haley replied: “They continue to talk about the reform of the Security Council. I know this is what India wants. This is what many other countries want. Wait and see".
The President of the United States regularly criticizes the UN for inefficient operation and overspending. In April, at a meeting with members of the Security Council of the world organization in the White House, he said: “The UN does not solve problems. And I think that now she will start doing it. UN member countries will come together and resolve conflicts.”
AT recent months Washington - the organization's largest donor - has cut funding for a number of its programs.
According to Reuters, only those states that agree to sign a 10-point declaration calling on Guterres to "start an effective and expedient reform" were supposed to be allowed to participate in the forum.
So far, the United States has covered over 22% of the organization's regular budget of approximately $5.4 billion, as well as 28.5% of the organization's peacekeeping operations, which cost $ 7.9 billion. In total, Washington spends about $ 10 billion a year on the UN and its programs. According to Trump, this distribution of the financial burden is unfair. He believes that American contributions to the organization's peacekeeping activities should not exceed 25%.
Russia's permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, is not sure that Russia will sign the US-proposed declaration on the reform of the world organization. He told this to reporters on Friday.
According to him, the effectiveness of the UN can be increased only through intergovernmental negotiations. The document proposed by the United States is “a declaration of countries that hold similar views on this issue, but this is not an instruction Secretary General how to rebuild the organization,” Nebenzya said. He stressed that neither the United States nor "any group of like-minded countries can reform the UN without the consent of all member countries."

An international high-level meeting on Syria will be held on September 21 at the UN headquarters in New York on the sidelines of the general political discussion of the General Assembly. This was stated on Sunday in an interview with TASS by Russia's permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya.
He explained that the meeting, which will take place on the initiative European Union, has nothing to do with International group Support for Syria (MGPS), which includes about 20 countries, the UN and the League of Arab States. The co-chairs of the IGAC are Russia and the United States.
On September 19-25, the UN will host a general political discussion of the General Assembly, on the sidelines of which dozens of meetings and bilateral meetings will be held. According to Vasily Nebenzya, “a lot of serious, important and burning issues” will be discussed during the week, including the settlement of conflicts in Libya and Syria, the implementation of a deal on the Iranian nuclear program. "Of course, there is no escape from discussing the problem of the Korean Peninsula, it will be heard from the lips of many delegations," the agency's interlocutor noted.
According to him, during the high-level week at the UN "there are a huge number of events, all of which the ministers will not be able to attend, simply because time does not allow it." “But we have a fairly large delegation, we will visit everywhere, and these events will not remain without our opinion and voice,” the permanent representative of the Russian Federation emphasized.

The international community is on the eve of the next, 72nd, session of the General Assembly of the United Nations - one of the basic centers of the modern world order. Preparations are underway in virtually all capitals of the 193 Member States. By order of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, an official delegation headed by Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov was formed. Its work is based on the fundamental provisions of the Concept foreign policy 2016, including those related to strengthening the coordinating role of the UN, which has international legitimacy, in the world system; ensuring the key provisions and principles of the UN Charter - an integral part of the current international law; enhancing the effectiveness of the activities of the UN Security Council, which bears the main responsibility for maintaining international peace and security; counteracting attempts by individual states or groups of states to revise generally recognized legal imperatives.

Following a long tradition, Russia will come forward during the New York session with a new diplomatic initiative dedicated to international regulation in the field of cybersecurity. The approach of Russian diplomacy has already received the support of the member countries of the BRICS, the SCO, the collective security. Much attention is paid to it in Russia's bilateral contacts with China, the United States and other states. The essence of our diplomatic offer - information security is of a global nature. It affects the sovereignty, existence, functioning of almost every state. This proposal (to prepare a draft of the relevant international convention) is especially relevant given the fact that today more than 30 countries are engaged in the practical development of information weapons. The United Nations, at the suggestion of Moscow's diplomacy, is called upon to contribute to the regulation of this acute issue. The Russian Federation takes an active part in inter-MFA consultations on the agenda of the 72nd session of the General Assembly within the framework of the CSTO ( peacekeeping UN, anti-terrorist work, situation in Afghanistan.), Commonwealth Independent States(sustainable development, elections to UN bodies).

Other countries and international institutions are also declaring their positions. Thus, US President D. Trump, who will speak for the first time in a general political discussion, outlined the problem of reforming the United Nations. The topic is relevant, no doubt. It has already been considered, let us note, for a long time in various structures. But it comes from a country that, unfortunately, makes a significant contribution to the unconstructive practice of international legal nihilism. Only the latest negative steps taken by the White House, the Congress, the US State Department in relation to Russia, its foreign missions, foreign property, which violate the principles of cooperation, diplomatic and consular law, and respect for human rights, speak extremely eloquently about this. We cannot ignore the declaration that the United States will reduce its delegation to the General Assembly by several hundred people in order to reduce the expenses of the State Department. A solid document “On the position of the Republic of Belarus on the main issues of the Agenda of the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly” was prepared by Minsk. In the same vein - the statement of Ashgabat "72nd session of the UN General Assembly: the creative agenda of Turkmenistan." It notes such urgent problems and priorities as international security, energy, ecology, sports, human rights. Particular emphasis is placed on the task of "creating an atmosphere of trust between countries." The diplomacy of Kyrgyzstan is acting proactively. In particular, she is preparing a meeting of a special meeting on the problem of uranium legacy objects in Central Asia within the framework of the session.

It is hoped that the international community will hear a lot of useful information from the debut speech in New York by the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Sh. Mirziyoyev and other high-ranking politicians and diplomats. The given examples illustrate the positive-active trend in the diplomacy of the leading international organization, serve as a guarantor of an effective approach to addressing the 171 issues in the program of work. Its analysis testifies to the achieved high level of forecasting in the Organization, its possession of an effective methodology, theory and practice of world management. The agenda speaks of the ability of the UN to follow the trend of realism, to serve as a source and mechanism for harmonizing the triad of interests - planetary, regional, personal (country studies). There is no doubt that, contrary to the desire of deconstructive forces (for example, American neocons, Russophobic structures and politicians of the countries of the “golden billion”), who want to belittle the political and applied role of the United Nations in ensuring progress and sustainable development of the world order, dissolve its competence among Western institutions (like NATO), the experience gained by the 72nd session of the General Assembly, more than 200 of its subsidiary bodies, will, we hope, meet the lofty purposes of the UN Charter (Preamble, Chapter I).

Opening on September 12, 2017 in New York, the session of one of the main UN bodies will focus its energy on the really significant issues of the 21st century. Let's name some blocks that give a systematic idea of ​​the place of the UN in modern world governance, the vectors of its activities for today and in the future.

First, promoting the progressive economic growth and sustainable development(establishment of a new world human order, globalization and interdependence, eradication of poverty, social development, advancement of women.).

Secondly, the maintenance of international peace and security (the rejection of the use of unilateral extraterritorial coercive economic measures as a means of exerting political and economic pressure, the prevention of armed conflicts, the role of mediation in the peaceful settlement of disputes, the international cooperation in the use of outer space, special political missions.).

Third, the development of Africa (new partnerships, the causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development).

Fourthly, promotion of human rights (protection of children's rights, rights of indigenous peoples, elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance).

Fifth, effective coordination of efforts to provide humanitarian aid(in case of disasters, assistance to the Palestinian people, special economic assistance to individual countries and regions).

Sixth, the promotion of justice and the development of international law (the oceans and the law of the sea, the expulsion of aliens, the rule of law at the national and international levels, the effects of armed conflicts on treaties, the responsibility of international organizations).

Seventh, disarmament (reducing military budgets, preventing an arms race in outer space, general and complete disarmament, measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction, confidence-building measures in the regional and subregional context, moral imperatives for a world free of nuclear weapons ).

Eighth, drug control, crime prevention and international terrorism in all its forms and manifestations (crime prevention and criminal justice, international drug control, measures to eliminate international terrorism).

The significance of the UN lies not only in the correct, adequate to international trends, determination of the priorities of interstate interaction on the basis of the basic principles of the Charter and international law. The work of the 72nd session of the General Assembly is designed to create the prerequisites for filling the time-demanded strategy of communication between different countries according to the 3 “D” formula (trust, dialogue, action) with concrete and effective meaning. She has such potential. Therefore, within the framework of the session meetings in New York, it is advisable to discuss the tasks and formation of the Code of Civilized Conduct of Modern Actors. In his favor speaks the very disturbing fact of the preservation in international relations a kind of "critical mass", the consequences of which affect such values ​​as democracy, law, justice, morality. This negative phenomenon is represented by the growing statistics of violations of the principles and norms of international law, UN Security Council resolutions (illegitimate, so-called sanctions, steps taken by the United States, the European Union against Russia, China, Syria, Iran; testing of missile, with nuclear components, weapons of the DPRK); the conscious inability of some countries to negotiate, as a result of which the universalization of decisions on the most important problems (disarmament and non-proliferation, the fight against terrorism, ecology) is hindered; selfishness of foreign policy behavior (rejection by the new US Administration of the Paris Climate Convention 2016); the desire of a number of developed Western countries to replace the exclusive role of the UN in maintaining peace and security with regional structures such as NATO; acts of destruction of national sovereignty through projects of "color revolutions" (in the post-Soviet space, in the region of the Near and Middle East, North Africa); the exploitation of humanitarian interventions, the speculation of human rights issues to interfere in the internal affairs of UN members and other disturbing circumstances. They must be responded to in a coordinated, politically responsible manner. It is this creative and business opportunity that gives participation on an equal footing in the activities of the United Nations. The UN is a capable global structure in the world. But she should be helped, overcoming objective and subjective difficulties. Russia, as one of the leading international actors, acts exclusively in this vein.

Therefore, it is no accident (according to a recent survey by the Center for Socio-Political Monitoring at the Institute of Social Sciences) that every second Russian today believes that Russia has been and remains a great world power. 34.7% believe that Russia will become a great power. Such a positive trend for our country is also observed in the international environment (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Hungary, Israel, Greece, India, China, Vietnam, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Senegal). Another curious fact. According to the American research center PEW Research (May 2017), in some countries of the world, trust in V.V. Putin is higher than in D. Trump. The Russian leader, for example, outperformed the American president by 31% in Greece and Lebanon, and by 21% in Vietnam.

But it is also obvious that if the two leaders (Russia and the United States) can actually come to an agreement, implement the agreed positions with the support of other states, the regulation of many problems, including those within the agenda of the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly, will be quite positive .