UN General Assembly
2025

And while our minds are focused on current security and humanitarian crisis, we are aware that they are aggravated by the planetary crisis of pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss, all of which threaten to bring more instability, more conflicts over resources, more lost lives and livelihoods. At ADS, our cherished organization is challenged by a budgetary crisis, by a crisis of multilateralism, and by lack of respect for international law. In this time of crisis, we have set ourselves three key objectives. These have been at the heart of Germany's work at the United Nations for decades and summarize our Security Council bid today, justice, peace, respect. Since joining the United Nations, we have been adamant justice means development. Where hunger persists, there can be no lasting peace, German Chancellor Willy Brandt said in his first address to the United Nations in 1973. Justice requires that every human being has access to food, to clean water, to education, and to health care. Germany is the second largest contributor to the UN system.