UN General Assembly
2025

I now give the floor to Her Excellency Christina Markus Lassen, Chair of Delegation of Denmark. Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. President, Distinguished Delegates, Friends and Colleagues. Eighty years ago, representatives from around the globe came together to establish the United Nations. My country, Denmark, was part of that historic moment. But many other nations were not given that opportunity. In 1945, the world was still a world of empires, of colonies and dependent territories that were not free to choose their own political destiny. The establishment of the United Nations did not change that overnight. Yet, it set the world on a course toward a radically different order. An order based on the equal rights and self-determination of peoples and of nations. Large and small. A rules-based, international order. As this order grew into being, the world saw tremendous progress. More than a billion people were lifted out of poverty, standards of living and life expectancies rose, and networks of economic, political, social and cultural relations across the globe were formed.