Gloomy agenda as world leaders gather at UN

World leaders gathering at the United Nations confront a depressing global agenda dominated by new terrorist threats, a humanitarian disaster in Sudan, turmoil in Iraq, and a growing gap between the richest and poorest inhabitants of planet Earth.

President George Bush signalled that there will be a sharp shift in the US focus at this year’s ministerial meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York today – with Iraq sharing the spotlight with humanitarian issues, not dominating the two week session.