UN General Assembly
2023

The Group of 20 (G-20) demonstrated that by admitting the African Union as a full member. I warmly thank the members of the G-20 for their unanimous support for that initiative, which Senegal put forward during its current presidency of the African Union. We hope that the example of inclusion thus given by the G-20 will be followed by the Security Council and the Bretton Woods institutions, for a multilateralism more representative of the interests of all its members. Likewise. Senegal remains committed to the vision of peaceful international relations based on the equal dignity of peoples, cultures and civilizations. On 31 October 1961. one year after our country gained its independence. President Leopold Sedar Senghor expressed that vision here in these words: “[N]o one particular civilization ... could be imposed without the bulk of mankind rising up against it” (A/PV.1045, para. 17).