UN General Assembly
2021

Exactly two decades ago, the United Nations and its leader received the Nobel Peace Prize. At the reception ceremony, former Secretary-General Kofi Anan said that we had “entered the third millennium through a gate of fire”. Unfortunately, the fire has not been fully extinguished. For several decades now, we have witnessed unprecedented levels of protracted global turbulence and unpredictability. That is a logical outcome of the fact that our planet has been functioning outside the systems and obligations enshrined in the universal principles of international law, including the Charter of the United Nations, Today’s world is governed by economic egotism, political ambition, imperialist blackmail instincts, crises, conflicts and orchestrated chaos. Some States attempt to impose on other sovereign States artificial templates for socioeconomic development, as well as barbarous policies of sanctions against undesirable Governments, economic terrorism and the kind of policy that seeks to return our peaceful world to confrontation among great-Power alliances.