UN General Assembly
2022

Seventy-seven years ago, when the battlefields of the Second World War had fallen silent but their horrors reverberated around the globe, a new world order emerged out of the remains of the old one. And that new world order was manifested by the Charter of the United Nations, developed by 50 nations at the San Francisco Conference. The United Nations is a table at which every State can sit down, a forum where everyone can be heard and where everyone is equally important. That is the concept of multilateralism, and it is a fundamental political principle of diplomacy. It is said that multilateral diplomacy is similar to gardening — you plant, you wait, you sow the seeds, you wait, you trim and you harvest at some point. In multilateralism, we talk to each other, we develop a relationship of trust and confidence and, if something were to come up, you have the base to work from.