UN General Assembly
2018

“Making the United Nations relevant to all people: global leadership and shared responsibilities for peaceful, equitable and sustainable societies” is the theme of this year’s session of the General Assembly. That suggests an uncompromising view of what we want for our Organization and urges every Member State to value its contribution to improving the universal collective. It also urges them to protect the values that make the United Nations a bulwark of solidarity, peace and shared progress in the face of the profound changes that have taken place in the international scene and that have been marked by the emergence of new development hubs and the appearance of new threats, some of which have global repercussions. That once again reinforces the value of shared and engaged reflection on the reform of our Organization with a view to ensuring its improved functioning. However, the effectiveness of our Organization in that new context also depends on its ability to preserve the ideals on which the structure of global equilibrium that emerged in San Francisco more than 70 years ago are based.