Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who has tended to skip the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations, has decided to attend the high-profile event later this month and deliver a speech to the UN General Assembly.
The address will come at an uncertain time in world affairs: the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL); Russian aggression in Ukraine; and continued tension in Israel and Gaza.
It will also break a pattern in recent years that saw Harper shun the General Assembly and instead travel to New York at the same time as its meeting to …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
