UN General Assembly
2024

The **Global South and East** are increasingly asserting their right to full participation in global decision-making processes—across the entire international agenda. This trend is particularly relevant now that the West is deliberately dismantling the very model of globalisation it once created. The role of **intergovernmental organisations** in Asia, Africa, and Latin America is growing. These include the **Shanghai Cooperation Organisation**, the **African Union**, the **Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC)**, the **League of Arab States**, the **Eurasian Economic Union**, the **Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)**, and many others. Connections are strengthening among regional integration structures themselves, as well as with the global alliance **BRICS**. This creates opportunities to harmonise approaches for mutually beneficial cooperation and development, free from harmful external interference or coercion. These objective trends must also be reflected in the work of the **Group of Twenty (G20)**—where the so-called G7 can no longer “call the tune.” We must also reconsider regional security arrangements, learning the lessons of the failed **NATO-centric** and **Euro-Atlantic** models that the West has used to advance its expansionist aims.