In his first address to the UN General Assembly, Argentine President Javier Milley slammed the UN, saying it had “transformed itself into a multi-tentacled behemoth that seeks to dictate not only what each country should do but how all peoples of the world should live.”
“Thus we have transformed from an organisation that pursues peace into one that imposes an ideological agenda on its members,” he added, according to a translation by Reuters.
He then criticised the UN's latest proposals, describing the “Pact for the Future” as “twisted” and its policies as “wrong direction”.
“The adoption of this agenda is entirely in line with the interests of these privileged classes, transgresses the principles enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and therefore distorts and misleads the role of this Organization,” Milley said in an impassioned speech.
Milley accused the UN of being “one of the advocates of the systematic erosion of freedom”, citing its support for lockdowns to combat the coronavirus pandemic and its allowing “bloody dictatorships” like Venezuela to remain on the Human Rights Council “with impunity”.
“For this reason, I wish to formally express my opposition to the Pact for the Future signed on Sunday and I call on all the nations of the free world to support us not only in this pact, but also in the establishment of a new agenda for this noble organization, an agenda for freedom,” Milley declared.
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Argentine President Javier Milley speaks at the 79th United Nations General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York City on September 24, 2024. (Reuters/Eduardo Munoz)
“This long list of errors and contradictions, as 'A Pact for the Future' dictates, has led to the UN losing its credibility before the citizens of the free world,” Milley said. “I want to sound a warning here: we are nearing the end of a cycle. Collectivism, moral posturing and the woke agenda are facing reality. There are no longer any credible solutions to the world's real problems.”
The Pact for the Future was the centerpiece of the Future Summit, which kicked off the UN General Assembly's High-Level Week this week. The pact marks the culmination of a series of policies and mission statements issued by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres over the past few years.
The agreement aims to expand the scope and focus of the UN and its member states to address “global shocks” such as “disruptions to the global flow of goods, people and capital.”
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Milley said these new policies amount to an expansion of the UN organisation's powers, comparing them to the UN's original mission and achievements, and slamming the praise of countries where “women who vote against Israel, the only country in the Middle East that upholds liberal democracy, are punished for simply showing skin in this parliament.”
Danny Danon, Israel's newly appointed ambassador to the United Nations, praised Milley for challenging the agreement between the General Assembly and Secretary-General Guterres, calling her a “true friend of the State of Israel.”
“In this hall where you've been denigrating Israel all day, you've shown courage and supported Israel!”
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Milley argued that if the current agenda fails, UN member states will have to ask “whether this was a poorly designed plan from the start.”
“We have to accept this reality and change our behavior,” he argued. “The same thing always happens with ideas coming out of the left… When individuals decide to act freely, they have no good solution other than to restrict, suppress or cut off that freedom.”
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“In Argentina, we have seen with our own eyes what they ended up with at the end of this path of jealousy and sad passion: poverty, anarchy and total lack of freedom,” Millay said. “We still have time to choose a different direction.”
Millay ended with her favorite slogan: “Long live freedom, dammit! Thank you so much.”
Reuters contributed to this report.
