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The Latest: El Salvador's leader starts speech with selfie
Updated 12:58 pm CDT, Thursday, September 26, 2019
Photo: Richard Drew, AP
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele takes a selfie portrait during his addresses to the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Latest on the U.N. General Assembly's annual gathering of world leaders (all times local):
1:45 p.m.
El Salvador's new leader just snapped what might be a selfie worth a thousand words on the U.N. General Assembly stage.
President Nayib Bukele opened his speech to the assembly Thursday by taking a selfie — and casting it as a portrait of a global gathering that has become out of touch.
He reasoned many more people will see the selfie than hear his speech at a time when he says "the internet is increasingly becoming the real world," and the assembly's in-person meeting is "increasingly obsolete."
Bukele says the assembly is "stuck in time."
He said the U.N. itself isn't obsolete, but it needs to embrace change and technology to stay relevant.
More:
https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/The-Latest-Sierra-Leone-UN-reform-to-give-14469857.php