UN General Assembly
2024

institutions and their interests are not met. This must change. Ending wars would benefit most — if not all of us — but currently we do not have the mechanisms to drive the interest of the global majority. Many countries do not feel they have a say in global institutions. As a result, the institutions are losing their legitimacy. Shortcomings in multilateral institutions encourage many to seek solutions outside traditional international institutions. Alliances, whether based on interests or values (or both), are creating a transactional world of disorder where size and power benefits a minority rather than the majority. The cold truth is that we cannot postpone reform any longer. History is on our shoulders, just as it was with those who founded the United Nations in 1945. If our goal is to focus on what unites us rather than what divides us, we need a far- reaching reform of the UN Security Council. Finland’s three point proposal today is very concrete, some might say overly optimistic, but I do feel we have to begin somewhere. So here we go.