The general debate of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly closed on Monday, September 28, which has led to New York about 130 heads of state and government gathered under the theme “Restoring trust, managing transformation: a United that Nations delivers for all”. Seven dense days, in which the Glass Palace has returned to be the nerve center of world diplomacy, and the city around has noticed: protests, parades and blockades have accompanied the entire week, causing delays and discomfort to residents of the East Side of Midtown Manhattan, as every year in this period.
On 22 September, António Guterres opened the work, with what is at all the last speech as Secretary General of the United Nations: his mandate, begun in 2017 and renewed in 2022, will end on 31 December. “The cracks have become canyons,” Guterres began, drawing a hard balance of recent years: wars, inequalities, climate crisis and the uncontrolled rush of artificial intelligence. He reiterated several times that the superpowers must recognize the limits of their power, and launched an appeal for shared rules on artificial intelligence, recalling that “children must never become guinea pigs of unregulated systems” and that “the killer robots must not have place in our future. ” At the end of the speech, the Assembly gave him a long standing ovation. Guterres has closed promising to continue, even after the end of the mandate, to defend “the power of the law against the law of power. ”
To lead the Italian delegation was the Vice-President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani, on delegation of the President of the Council Giorgia Meloni. In his speech at the Assembly, on 23 September, Tajani indicated peace as the leading thread of the Italian message, touching the main hot dossiers of the moment: support for Ukraine, with the announcement of a thirteenth package of aid in preparation, the situation in Lebanon, where Italy is already engaged with the UNIFIL mission, relations with Iran, for which he desired a diplomatic solution, and the request for a reform of the Council.
At the end of the mission, on 24 September, Tajani outlined a “very positive” budget: “We were at the centre of attention, we signed an agreement with the United States and met many representatives from other countries,” he told Italian journalists in New York, adding that “there is much interest in Italy. ”
The general debate closed on Monday, September 28, which coincided with the 25th anniversary of the Durban Declaration on Racism, Racial Discrimination and Xenophobia. An edition, that of the 81st General Assembly, marked by tones more than by distension: rancours, accusations and threats have crossed many of the world leaders’ interventions on the podium during the week, while outside the Palazzo di Vetro the city has seen, as tradition, with a week of strengthened security and inconvenience to the viability.
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