🇮🇹 Italy - President Addresses United Nations General Debate, 78th Session | #UNGA

Giorgia Meloni, President of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Italy, addresses the general debate of the 78th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (New York, 19 - 26 September 2023). This video is available in multiple languages. Click the settings ⚙️ button to change the language track. ---------- Giorgia Meloni, President of the Italian Council of Ministers, said, “We must reject the utopic and self-serving narrative of those who say that a world without nations, without borders, and without identities, would also be a world without conflicts.” Addressing the General Assembly today (20 Sep), Meloni said, “It’s a choice to create chaos and spread it. And in this chaos, which produces tens of millions of people potentially searching for better living conditions are infiltrated criminal networks that profit from desperation to collect easy billions. They are the traffickers of human beings who organize the trade of illegal mass immigration.” She continued, “They charge thousands of dollars for trips to Europe, which they sell with brochures as if they were regular travel agencies. But those brochures don’t tell you that those trips too often lead to death, to a grave at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.” The Italian Council of Ministers President stated, “These are the people that a hypocritical approach to immigration has made rich without measure. We want to battle against the mafia in all its forms, and we will battle against this, too. The fact is that the fight against organized crime should be an objective that unites us all and that also invests the United Nations and this place. Can an organization like this, which affirms in its founding act ‘faith in the dignity and worth of the human person,’ really turn a blind eye to this tragedy?” She asked, “Can we really pretend not to see that no other criminal activity in the world today is more lucrative than the trafficking of migrants, when it is the UN reports themselves that have shown how this business has reached by volumes of money the same level of drug trafficking and far surpassed that of weapons?” She also asked, “Can we really say that it is solidarity to prioritize welcoming not those who really need it most but those who have the money to pay these traffickers, and allowing the traffickers to establish who has the right to safety? I don’t think so.” She concluded, “Africa needs no charity but to be put in a condition to compete on an equal footing, on strategic investments that can tie our futures together with mutually beneficial projects. In this way, we can offer a serious alternative to mass migration. This alternative is work, training, opportunities for nations of origin, and pathways for legal and agreed migration paths and thus also integration.” ----------- The UN General Assembly (UNGA) is the main policy-making organ of the Organization. Comprising all Member States, it provides a unique forum for multilateral discussion of the full spectrum of international issues covered by the Charter of the United Nations. Each of the 193 Member States of the United Nations has an equal vote. The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945. Currently made up of 193 Member States, the UN and its work are guided by the purposes and principles contained in its founding Charter. The UN has evolved over the years to keep pace with a rapidly changing world. But one thing has stayed the same: it remains the one place on Earth where all the world’s nations can gather together, discuss common problems, and find shared solutions that benefit all of humanity. General debate website: ---------------------------------------- مشاهدة هذا الفيديو باللغة العربية على موقع البث الشبكي للأمم المتحدة 请在联合国网络电视（UN Web TV）观看中文版视频 Regardez cette vidéo en français sur UN Web TV Vean este video en español en UN Web TV Смотрите это видео на русском на UN Web TV Screenshot credit: UN Photo/Laura Jarriel #UNGA #UnitedNations