Sessions of the UN General Assembly have lost much of their glow and much of the hope once invested in them. Leaders go to renew their wager on an awakening of international legitimacy, however late. Before that, they go to address their own people from this international platform. But in reality, they are betting on a public relations spectacle taking place outside the hall of speeches and wishes. In previous decades, the leaders of small states would paint their countries’ tears onto the walls
