Argentine President Javier Milei lashed out at everyone at the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly. He accused the United Nations of abandoning its original principles to become a “multi-tentacled leviathan” imposing a socialist agenda on its members. He said that Agenda 2030 has failed, that the World Economic Forum promotes “ridiculous policies with Malthusian blinkers” that harm poor countries, and he invited all countries to abandon the Pact for the Future to embrace the Agenda for freedom promoted by his far-right government.
Milei’s speech before the UN went against the grain of the main Latin American leaders. Unlike Gustavo Petro, who considered climate change as one of the great threats to humanity, the Argentine president did not even mention it, in line with his thinking that global warming “is another lie of socialism.” Nor did he refer to the fight against hunger that the Brazilian Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva previously defended, although in Argentina one in ten people has insufficient income to buy food.
Milei’s speech focused on criticizing the current direction of the United Nations and the States that support it, without taking into account that its position isolates Argentina in the international arena. The Pact for the Future is accepted by the vast majority of the 193 members of the UN and opposing it places Argentina alongside countries such as Iran and North Korea.
“The 2030 Agenda, although well-intentioned in its goals, is nothing more than a socialist supranational government program that seeks to resolve the problems of modernity with solutions that undermine the sovereignty of nation-states and violate people’s right to life, liberty and property,” Milei stressed.
The Argentine president praised the United Nations’ initial objective of pursuing world peace and celebrated the fact that since its creation 70 years ago, no world war has broken out. But he warned that it has mutated since its origins: “It has been replaced by a model of supranational government of international bureaucrats who seek to impose a certain way of life on the citizens of the world. What is being discussed this week here in New York at the summit of the future is nothing other than the deepening of this tragic course that this institution has adopted.”
The Argentine position had already been announced by other senior government officials, such as the Foreign Minister, Diana Mondino, and the Secretary of Culture and Civilization, Nahuel Sotelo, who said that “in the new Argentina there is no place for totalitarian international agendas.”
Milei considered that the UN is incapable of providing solutions to global conflicts such as “the aberrant Russian invasion of Ukraine” and “the scourge of terrorism”. Instead, in his opinion, the UN “invests time and effort in imposing on poor countries how and when they should produce, with whom to associate, what they should eat and what to believe, as the present Pact for the Future intends to dictate”. In line with his predecessors, who always used this world forum to claim sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands from Great Britain, the Argentine president accused the United Nations of not having fulfilled its mission of defending the territorial sovereignty of its members as Argentines know “first hand” in relation to these islands in the South Atlantic.
In his speech, the far-right leader was also highly critical of the confinement measures promoted by the World Health Organization to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus, which caused some 15 million deaths worldwide: “We have seen how an organization that was born to defend human rights has been one of the main promoters of the systematic violation of freedom, such as the global quarantines during 2020, which should be considered a crime against humanity.”
Milei warned that if we do not make a U-turn, the global outlook is bleak. To avoid this, he encouraged people to put aside the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and the Pact for the Future and embrace the Agenda for freedom based on the principles of defending life, liberty and property.
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