In his inaugural speech at the United Nations General Assembly, Argentinian President Javier Milei delivered a scathing critique of the organization, stating, “has transformed into a Leviathan with multiple tentacles that intends to decide not only what each nation-state should do but also how all the citizens of the world should live.”
He continued, “This is how we moved from an organization that pursued peace to an organization that imposes an ideological agenda on its members,” as per a Reuters translation.
Milei criticized the UN’s newest initiative, the “Pact for the Future,” labeling it as “twisted” and asserting that pursuing this policy is “the wrong course.”
“The adoption of this agenda is fully in line with these privileged interests, and, looks beyond the principles that were set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and it is therefore twisted the role of this organization and set it on the wrong course,” Milei passionately proclaimed.
He accused the UN of evolving into “one of the main proponents of systemic violations of freedom,” highlighting the organization’s endorsement of COVID pandemic lockdowns and its acceptance of “bloody dictatorships” like Venezuela in the Human Rights Council “without reproach.”
“Therefore, I’d like to officially express our dissent on the pact for the future that was signed on Sunday, and I invite all nations of the free world to support us, not only in the U.N. in relation to this pact, but also in the establishment of a new agenda for this noble institution that is the agenda for freedom,” Milei announced.
“As the ‘Pact for the Future’ purports to dictate, this long list of errors and contradictions has led to a loss of credibility for the United Nations before the citizens of the free world,” Milei declared. “I’d like to issue a warning here we are coming to the end of a cycle: Collectivism and moral posturing and the woke agenda is coming up against reality. There are no further credible solutions to the real problems of the world.”
The “Pact for the Future,” the main focus of this week’s Summit for the Future and the U.N. General Assembly, represents the culmination of various policies and statements by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres over recent years, aiming to broaden the U.N.’s ambit to manage “global shocks” like “disruptions to global flows of goods, people or finance.”
Milei juxtaposed these new measures, which he considered as overreaching, against the original goals and accomplishments of the U.N., denouncing the celebration of nations within the assembly that “punish their women just for showing their skin in this same house that have voted against the State of Israel, which is the only country in the Middle East to defend a liberal democracy.”
Danny Danon, Israel’s returning Ambassador to the United Nations, lauded Milei’s bold stance against the General Assembly and Guterres’ pact, recognizing Milei as “a true friend of the State of Israel.”
“In this hall where they slandered Israel all day, you expressed courage and supported Israel!” Danon praised.
Milei underscored that should the current agenda falter, U.N. members must contemplate “whether or not this was an ill-conceived program from the outset.”
“We should accept this reality and change what we’re doing,” he argued. “The same thing always happens with ideas that come from the Left … When individuals freely decide to act otherwise, they have no better solution than to restrict, repress or cut off their freedom.”
“In Argentina, we’ve seen with our own eyes what they have done at the end of this path of envy and sad passion: Poverty, anarchy and a total lack of liberty,” Milei observed. “We still have time to choose another direction.”
Milei concluded with his signature phrase, “”Long live freedom, damn it! Thank you very much.”
