{"id":22662,"date":"2026-09-26T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/26\/un-urges-netanyahu-respect-general-assembly-dignity\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T12:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T12:00:16","slug":"un-urges-netanyahu-respect-general-assembly-dignity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/26\/un-urges-netanyahu-respect-general-assembly-dignity\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Urges Netanyahu to Respect the Dignity of the General Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UN secretary-general\u2019s spokesperson, reacting to Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s display of a pager at the organisation\u2019s General Assembly, said speakers should respect the seriousness and dignity of the venue.<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Dujarric said at a news briefing yesterday, in response to a question about Netanyahu\u2019s use of the device to refer to operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon: &#8220;We cannot limit the freedom of expression of leaders, but we hope that everyone who speaks at the UN will respect the seriousness and dignity of this place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, during his speech to the UN General Assembly, Netanyahu displayed a pager and said the Israeli regime had used these booby-trapped devices to kill or maim hundreds of Hezbollah forces and Lebanese civilians.<\/p>\n<p>According to the news source, he spoke proudly of the operation against the people of Lebanon. The UN General Assembly is one of the international body\u2019s main annual meetings, where national leaders present their views and positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN said speakers should respect the dignity of the General Assembly after Netanyahu displayed a pager during his UN speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}