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The President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,Tuesday, stated that in his view, the United Nations is experiencing its most critical moment since he first addressed the podium of the General Assembly in 2003, emphasizing that the organization faces a escalating crisis in its capacity to prevent wars and protect the most vulnerable.
In his address during the opening of the eighty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, President Lula da Silva noted that Secretary-General António Guterres, throughout his two terms at the helm of the international body, has been a direct witness to the increasing overreach of superpower force, before characterizing the current predicament of the United Nations as the most perilous since he began delivering speeches in front of the General Assembly.
He added: "The emotion that drives me today is indignation," maintaining that the United Nations "is failing in one of its most noble duties, which is to save humanity from the scourge of war."
The Brazilian President highlighted that, according to his assessment, the credibility of the United Nations has never been at such a low level, nor has its ability to safeguard the most vulnerable—those who possess neither armies nor military arsenals—been so diminished.
He further observed that the nations of the world have become captives to the paralysis of an unresponsive Security Council, recalling that Brazil had warned as early as 1946, during the inaugural session of the General Assembly, of the exorbitant price the international community might pay for the veto power. President Lula da Silva characterized the veto power as an "original flaw" in the Charter of the United Nations, arguing that it bestowed an unreasonable privilege upon major powers, and adding that this problem has been further exacerbated by a profound crisis of leadership.
He pointed out that the year 2025 witnessed the highest number of armed conflicts since the Second World War, while trillions of United States dollars are being expended to finance a renewed arms race.
He warned that geopolitical tensions could escalate regional confrontations into a wide-scale conflict of global proportions, calling upon nations that hold decisive influence in international decision-making to act with responsibility and an urgent sense of the gravity of the situation.
President Lula da Silva declared that the leaders of the member states of the Security Council need to convene, adding: "I do not ignore the realities of power, but concessions to the law of the strongest have surpassed all limits."
The Brazilian President stressed that his position is not grounded in idealism, concluding: "This is not idealism, but pure realism; war is not the continuation of politics by other means, but rather the complete failure of politics," and urging that international crises be addressed based on the reality of global interconnectedness.
