The President of Argentina, Javier Milei, confirmed Argentina’s disassociation from the Future Pact of the United Nations (UN) during his lecture in the general debate of the 79th General Assembly of the agency.
We want to officially express our dissent on the Future Pact signed on Sunday, Milei stressed Tuesday in New York.
The Argentine president invited – all the nations of the free world – to join the dissent explained by his Government regarding this new tool promoted by the United Nations, which represents the continuity of the 2030 Agenda for Development.
In his replacement, the head of State proposed the creation of a new agenda, the freedom agenda.
Although he pointed out that the 2030 Agenda was well-meaning in its goals, it is nothing more than a socialist supranational government programme, which aims to solve the problems of modernity with solutions that undermine the sovereignty of nation states,” he said.
For Milei, this agenda was intended to solve poverty and inequality – with legislation that only does it do is deepen it, by adopting a program – which obeys privileged interests – and which distorted the role of the institution.
In his questions to the United Nations, the Argentine president pointed out that the 2030 Agenda deepened – that tragic course that this organization has taken.
The loss of credibility and the denature of the functions of the United Nations were a consequence of these misguided policies, Milei said.
In a mention of the co-vid-19 pandemic, the Argentine ruler considered that the restriction of freedoms promoted by the United Nations with quarantines during 2020 should be considered a crime against humanity.
Critic Reviews of the United Nations
Noting that he was not a politician but a libertarian economist, Milei accused the United Nations of failing to look after the principles of his founding declaration, and of having become a multi-tentaclele-leviathan who wants to decide on what each national state should do.
During his speech, which he read in its entirety, Milei also held the UN responsible for imposing – an ideological agenda on its members – while questioning the votes against Israel cast within that institution.
The head of state observed that the agency was also powerless – to provide solutions to real global conflicts, such as Russia’s aberrant invasion of Ukraine.
In addition, a toxic relationship between local governance policies and international credit agencies has been promoted, requiring the most relegated countries that do not have resources they do not have in programmes they do not need, he censored.
After posing this scenario, Milei warned that Argentina will not accompany any policy that implies restricting individual freedoms, trade or the natural rights of individuals, no matter who promotes it.
The South American country will also abandon the historical neutral position it has held so far to be at the forefront of the struggle in defense of freedom, the president concluded.
Milei’s intervention before the United Nations General Assembly is the first to be held as president of Argentina, a position he assumed on December 10.
This article has been translated after first appearing in El Pais