Israel has the right to defend itself against “external attacks, such as the horrible one of October 7,” but at the same time we ask Israel to respect international law, by protecting the civilian population, which is also largely a victim of Hamas and its destructive choices.” The Prime Minister said, Georgia Meloni, in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. “The Palestinian people – the Prime Minister continued – have the right to have their own State, but “for this to see the light of day soon, it is necessary for the Palestinians to entrust it to a leadership inspired by dialogue, the stabilization of the Middle East and autonomy.”
According to Meloni, “the Abraham Accords demonstrated the possibility of coexisting and cooperating beneficially on the basis of mutual recognition. If this is the perspective in which we must all work, and it is the case, the imperative today is to achieve without further delay a ceasefire in Gaza and the immediate release of the Israeli hostages: we cannot continue to witness tragedies like these days in southern and eastern Lebanon, with the participation of unarmed civilians, including many children,” he said.
In his speech to the UN General Assembly, Meloni stressed that Italy “has no intention of backing down” in defending the principles and values that underpin the UN Charter. “Because they are principles and values that are set out as a guarantee for all, especially for nations that have fewer tools to defend themselves: as always, the law must be the same for all, but because it serves above all to defend the weakest,” he said.
The Prime Minister then continued: “The G7 is not a closed fortress that wants to defend itself from someone, but an offer of values open to the world. The challenge is a decisive paradigm shift in relations between nations and in the functioning of multilateral organizations, with the aim of building a completely new model of cooperation,” he said, adding that this model must be based on the principles of mutual respect, sharing and concreteness. “This means relating to others on an equal footing, regaining that ability to listen to understand the reasons of the other which is the basis of all mutual trust,” he concluded.
In his speech, Meloni also addressed the issue of the difficulties of the South, “which are also the problems of the North, and vice versa. Homogeneous blocs no longer exist and the interdependence of our destinies is a fact: this is why we are called to think outside the patterns we have known in the past,” he said.
“The times we live in are very complex and the common nature of the challenges of our time requires us to think in a completely new way. Democratic political systems are facing unprecedented pitfalls, geo-economic fragmentation is increasing with consequences that we must all face, especially the most fragile nations,” he said, adding that “the instrumental use of religious faith becomes a factor of tension or worse, a factor of persecution: there are millions of people in the world who suffer because of their profession of faith, and Christians are first and foremost victims.”
Meloni then spoke about the war between Russia and Ukraine. “The injury inflicted on the rules-based international system by the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine has destabilizing effects, far beyond the borders in which it is taking place, and, like a domino, it contributes to rekindling, or exploding, other hotbeds of crisis.” The international community cannot “turn around in the face of Ukraine’s right to defend its borders, its sovereignty, its freedom.”
Italy wants to contribute to the definition of a global governance of artificial intelligence, capable of reconciling innovation, rights, work, intellectual property, freedom of expression and democracy. “We are witnessing the disruptive advent of generative artificial intelligence, a revolution that poses completely new questions: even if I am not sure it is correct to speak of intelligence. Because the one who asks the questions is intelligent, not the one who gives the answers by processing the data”, he said, adding that it is a technology that is drawing a world in which progress “no longer optimizes human skills, but can replace them”, with consequences that risk being dramatic especially on the labor market, with a verticalization and increasing concentration of wealth.
The United Nations must do more to combat the criminal organizations responsible for human trafficking. Meloni added that “unscrupulous criminal organizations, increasingly powerful and ramified, are taking advantage of the desperation of migrants.” The UN, he continued, must “do more, because these criminal organizations are reproposing, in other forms, a slavery (understood as the commodification of human beings) that this Assembly, in other times, played a fundamental role in definitively eradicating. There is no going back.” Defeating “the slavers of the third millennium,” he added, is possible if we join forces. “With greater cooperation and joint initiatives between our police forces, our intelligence services and our judicial authorities, and by adopting the formula of ‘follow the money’.” An intuition of two great Italian judges, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, which has become a model, even at an international level, in the fight against criminal organizations,” he concluded.
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