In her speech to the United Nations General Assembly this week, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in fact spent most of her time discussing the issue of Africa (which was not captured in the slug in yesterday’s briefing), and not the Ukraine war, unlike most of the other Atlanticist leaders who have spoken so far. She also argued that global collaboration is indispensable, and should be based on reason.
Here are the relevant passages:
“We are living in a complex age of constant emergencies and mutations, and we cannot afford the luxury of catch phrases, of principles extolled but not implemented, of easy choices instead of the right ones. We must return to the deep meaning of what gave birth to this place, the Community of Nations and peoples who recognize themselves in the 1945 Charter of the United Nations, which was created to find shared solutions that could guarantee peace and stability.
“There are basically two elements that have given meaning to this place. On the one hand, nations, which exist because they respond to the natural need of humans to feel part of a community of destiny, to belong to a particular people and to be able to share with other people the same historical memory, the same laws, the same customs and traditions. In a word, identity. And on the other hand, the aspiration of those Nations, different from each other, to find a place in which to settle international disputes with an instrument that is more difficult to use but definitely more effective in results than force, namely the instrument of reason.
