UN General Assembly
2023

There is a common thread to the various challenges that we are facing — the rule of law. which means that relations among States are governed by the law. that such law is the result of international agreements, that it applies to everyone and that there are consequences if it is violated. That was the spirit that guided those who gathered in San Francisco in 1945 to agree on the Charter of the United Nations — the most successful and most impactful treaty ever adopted. At its very heart, the United Nations is a peace organization. It has risen from the ashes of two devastating world wars, and it makes a powerful promise to future generations that the United Nations Charter addresses: that we. gathered in this Assembly, will not allow unlawful war-making to bring devastation, human suffering and instability to the peoples that we represent.