(United Nations) In a virulent and highly critical speech towards the UN, the ultra-liberal Argentine President Javier Milei denounced on Tuesday the “ideological ulterior motives” of the organization and rejected the “Pact for the Future” adopted on Sunday by the member states, in the name of “freedom”.
The UN, Javier Milei said in his first speech to the General Assembly since his election in late 2023, has become “a model of supranational government of international bureaucrats who claim to impose a certain way of life on the citizens of the world”, hence its “loss of credibility”.
Thus, and despite “the remarkable success in the history of nations” of having guaranteed “70 years of relative peace and global stability” since the Second World War, the UN “has gone from an organization that promoted peace to one that imposes ideological ulterior motives on its members.”
An organization “born to defend human rights has been one of the main promoters of systematic violations of freedoms, such as the global quarantines of 2020, which should be considered a crime against humanity,” Milei said, referring to the lockdowns imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Although well-intentioned,” the UN’s 2030 Agenda “is nothing more than a supranational socialist government program aimed at solving the problems of modernity with solutions that threaten the sovereignty of nation states,” insisted the leader who describes himself as an “anarcho-capitalist.”
For Javier Milei, “the 2030 Agenda has failed” and adhering to the “Pact for the Future” would be “persisting in error by redoubling efforts on a program that has failed.”
“End of cycle”
“We are at the end of a cycle,” he said. “Collectivism and the woke moral posture have collided with reality, and no longer have credible solutions.”
Javier Milei, on the contrary, proposed a program of “freedom” to relaunch the UN, the “doctrine of the New Argentina” which according to him is “neither more nor less than the true essence of the United Nations.”
Argentina will be “at the forefront of the struggle to defend freedom” and “will abandon its position of historical neutrality,” he promised, referring to the country’s neutrality during the two World Wars, but without giving further details on the implications.
As an ultraliberal, Javier Milei has already described the United States and Israel as natural strategic allies in the past. “Long live freedom, damn it!” Javier Milei roared in conclusion, his usual cry to punctuate his speeches.
UN member states adopted a “Pact for the Future” on Sunday, pledging to design “a better future” for humanity battered by wars, poverty and global warming, despite opposition from a handful of countries, including Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Iran and North Korea.