Queen Elizabeth addresses UN

By Harvey Morris in New York

Published: July 6 2010 15:40 | Last updated: July 6 2010 21:04

Queen Elizabeth II addressed the United Nations on Tuesday for the first time
in more than half a century and was braving a 100F heat wave to pay her
respects at the site of New York’s 9/11 attacks.

The 84-year-old British monarch last addressed the UN General Assembly in 1957, a year
after UN deliberations were dominated by the Suez crisis that marked a
turning point in Britain’s post-war imperial decline.