UN General Assembly
2024

In the summer of 1945, Liberia joined other nations in San Francisco as one of the original signatories to the United Nations Charter. Page 1|6 On that fateful day, the world, having suffered the scourge of war, was full of hope and determined to reverse the past. Nearly eighty years on, and reflecting on the Preamble of the United Nations Charter, which declares our commitment to 'promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,' we ask the question: has our reaffirmation of “faith ... in the dignity and worth of the human person ...” made eight decades ago been realized? We must admit that the world has changed and the frontiers that we now embrace are different. Innate greed, insensitivity to the poor, the international drug epidemic, money launderings, dynamics of climate change and the impact of social media must compel us to rethink our approach to global peace and security. Our beloved United Nations must undergo the institutional and philosophical reflections required to respond to this new age.