The annual UN summit brings together the leaders of the world’s 193 internationally recognised states, making it the most inclusive branch of the United Nations.
And its annual meetings have been the setting for historic – and sometimes historically comical – moments.
As world leaders converged again on New York City for the 74th UN General Assembly this past week, Inside Politics revisits five key moments that took place at the UN podium from years gone by.
1. Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi speaks for 100 minutes
In his first and only speech at the UN, the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi made up for lost time.
Gaddafi shattered the UN’s time limit of 15 minutes in 2009 when he delivered a 100-minute tirade in which he denounced the UN Security Council, defended Somali pirates and accused “capitalist companies” of producing viruses to sell medicine.
Gaddafi also called on the UN to open an investigative
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