A hard attack on Russia for having inflicted “a profound wound to international law” and a severe criticism of Israel for having “exceeded the limit of the principle of proportionality” in its reaction to Hamas, ending with “to break humanitarian rules and causing a massacre between civilians”. These are some of the salient steps of the intervention (in Italian) of the premier Giorgia Meloni to the UN General Assembly, which lasted 16 minutes and applauded by a half -life room for the late evening hours.
A speech in which he denounced the inadequacy of the UN architecture and invited to fight both religious persecutions (“mainly of Christians”) and the trafficking of human beings, also reviewing the “anachronistic” international conventions on migration and asylum which, “when they are interpreted in an ideological and unidirectional way by political magistrates, they end up trampling on the right, instead of saying it”. Also in the sights also the “” Verdì plans that in Europe – and in the entire West – are leading to deindustrialization long before decarbonisation”. Recalling that the UN was born in 1945 with the main purpose of avoiding new conflicts after the Second World War, Meloni said that “the question we have to ask ourselves, eighty years later, and looking around, is: did we succeed? You all know the answer, because it is in the record, and it is merciless. Peace, dialogue, diplomacy seem to no longer be able to convince and win. The use of force prevails in too many occasions. And the scenario that we are facing is what Pope Francis described with rare effectiveness: a ‘third world war fought’ in Pezzì ». The premier immediately pointed the finger at Russia, “permanent member of the Security Council, which deliberately trampled on article 2 of the UN Statute, violating the integrity and political independence of another sovereign state, with the desire to annex the territory. And still today he does not show himself available to seriously welcome any invitation to sit at the peace table ». “This profound wound inflicted on international law – he underlined – has unleashed destabilizing effects much beyond the boundaries in which war is consumed. The conflict in Ukraine has rekindled, and made to detonate, several other outbreaks of crisis. While the United Nations have further disunited ». After condemning the Hamas attacks of 7 October, Meloni accused Israel of having exceeded with his reaction “the limit of the principle of proportionality”. A “choice that Italy has repeatedly defined unacceptable, and which will lead to our favorable vote on some of the sanctions proposed by the European Commission towards Israel”.
The premier then invited Israel to “get out of the trap of this war: he must do it for the history of the Jewish people, for his democracy, for the innocent, for the universal values of the free world of which it is part”. “And to close a war, concrete solutions are needed, because peace is not only built with the appeals, or with ideological proclamations accepted by those who do not want peace,” he continued, calling “very interesting the proposals that the President of the United States has discussed with the Arab countries in these hours”, saying ready “obviously to give a hand”. The Prime Minister said that “Israel does not have the right to prevent the A Palestinian state is born, nor to build new settlements in the West Bank in order to prevent it. Meloni therefore attacked “unsustainable ecology” which “has almost destroyed the car sector in Europe, created problems in the USA, caused losses of jobs, weighed down the ability to compete and depleted knowledge. We wanted centuries to build our systems, but a few decades are enough to find themselves in the industrial desert. Only, as I said many times, there is nothing in the desert.” Conclusion cited St. Francis, “the most Italian of the saints, who gave the name to the city where this organization was born (San Francisco, ed): ‘difficult fights are reserved only for those who have an exemplary courage.