Javier Milei's memorable speech at the UN denouncing its socialist drift

The President of the Argentine Republic, Javier Milei, gave a major speech before the UN General Assembly in New York.

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In his speech, Milei warned about "the danger that this organization may fail in its original mission", pointing out "what will happen if the United Nations continues to promote the collectivist policies that they have been promoting under the mandate of the 2030 Agenda." The Argentine president recognized the just reason for the birth of the UN:

"The United Nations was born out of the horror of the bloodiest war in global history, with the primary goal of ensuring that it would never happen again. To this end, the organization set its fundamental principles in stone in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. There, a basic agreement was set out around a maxim: that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Under the tutelage of this organization and the adoption of these ideas, for the last 70 years humanity has lived in the longest period of global peace in history, which also coincided with the period of greatest economic growth in history."

Milei also pointed out how the UN began to abandon its founding purpose and take a very different direction:

"Now, at some point, as is often the case with most bureaucratic structures that we men create, this organization stopped upholding the principles outlined in its founding declaration and began to mutate. An organization that had been essentially intended as a shield to protect the realm of men, was transformed into a multi-tentacled leviathan that purports to decide not only what each nation state should do but also how all citizens of the world should live.

This is how we went from an organization that pursued peace to an organization that imposes an ideological agenda on its members on a host of issues that affect the life of man in society."

Milei also referred to the 2030 Agenda, which symbolizes very well the current drift of the UN:

"The 2030 Agenda, although well-intentioned in its goals, is nothing more than a supranational government program of a socialist nature, which seeks to solve the problems of modernity with solutions that undermine the sovereignty of nation states and violate people's right to life, liberty and property. It is an agenda that seeks to solve poverty, inequality and discrimination with legislation that only deepens them, because the history of the world shows that the only way to guarantee prosperity is by limiting the power of the monarch, guaranteeing equality before the law and defending the right to life, liberty and property of individuals.

It was precisely the adoption of this agenda, which is in response to privileged interests, and the abandonment of the principles outlined in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which distorted the role of this institution and put it on the wrong path."

Milei exposed the inconsistencies of the UN on several issues, giving some very clear examples that show the abandonment of its founding reason:

"In this same house, which claims to defend human rights, bloody dictatorships such as those in Cuba and Venezuela have been allowed into the Human Rights Council without the slightest reproach.

In this same house, which claims to defend women's rights, countries that punish their women for showing skin are allowed into the Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.

In this very house, we have systematically voted against the State of Israel, which is the only country in the Middle East that defends liberal democracy, while simultaneously demonstrating a total inability to respond to the scourge of terrorism.

On the economic level, collectivist policies have been promoted that undermine economic growth, violate property rights and hinder the natural economic process, preventing the most disadvantaged countries in the world from freely enjoying their own resources to move forward."

I found Milei's speech excellent and memorable. It was about time someone spoke these truths at the UN headquarters itself, about whose disastrous course I have been issuing warnings from this blog for many years. Thank you, Milei, for bringing to the UN what many of us think and say about the shameful course of that organization.

You can watch Milei's full speech at the UN here (the video is in Spanish, you can activate automatic English subtitles in the bottom bar of the player):

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Photo: UN Photo/Loey Felipe.