UN General Assembly
2021

“The pandemic has demonstrated our collective failure to come together and make joint decisions for the common good, even in the face of an immediate, life-threatening global emergency”. The pandemic has exposed the shortcomings of our international system. It has revealed that the system continues to be undergirded by nationalism, which remains the prevailing force. After all these 76 years since the founding of the United Nations, it is not the collective well-being of our one planet and our one humankind that motivates us but selfish national interests. And in pursuit of that selfish nationalism, we overlook the truth of our shared cohabitation on one planet, one Earth, and ignore the reality that what affects one affects all.