19
May
2026
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Recommendation on the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly (debate)
Mr President, first of all I congratulate Mr Kovatchev on his report. The international context has changed a lot in recent years: It is now more complex, uncertain, polarized. Even the rules-based international order is called into question and, unfortunately, the United Nations is not playing the role we would like today. But there are challenges that still require multilateral responses: climate change, migration flows, pandemics, terrorism, organised crime, drug trafficking. That is why we need to strengthen multilateralism and strengthen the United Nations. I welcome the fact that Mr Kovatchev's report includes the objective for the future of a permanent seat for the European Union in a Security Council reformed and enlarged by consensus, as the Union is a global actor firmly committed to the Charter of the United Nations. And, also in New York, we must strengthen cooperation with our partners and allies. I am thinking particularly of most countries in Latin America, with which we share deep ties and a common vision of the rules-based international order. Let us not forget that both blocs, that both continents, represent about one third of the voting rights in the United Nations.