“We are experiencing a time of crisis, however crises always hide a great opportunity,” she said.
“After all the word crisis comes from Greek [and means] choice, decision: crises force us to question ourselves, to take a position.
“No state can govern the crises of our time, for this reason Italy is a convinced supporter of multilateralism and of its most representative institution, the UN, in which each voice is heard.
“[The UN] is the place in which we are called to learn, understand and respect one another.
“The challenges history has placed in front of us are numerous and of different shapes … [making] international security increasingly precarious.
“Faced with such a complex scenario we have no other choice but to act,” she noted.
Meloni also highlighted Italy’s position on a reform of the UN Security Council, noting that it must abide by the principles of equality, democracy and representativity.
“The reform makes sense if it is made for everybody and not just for some,” she said.
“We are not interested in creating new hierarchies and we don’t believe there are first- and second-class nations.
“There are nations with their histories, their peculiarities and their citizens who all have the same rights because they are born free and equal as individuals,” she noted.
Meloni went on to say that “we must think about cooperation among nations in a new way”.
“Italy has done it with the Mattei plan, an investment plan conceived to cooperate with African nations through an approach that is neither paternalistic nor charitable nor predatory but based on respect and on the right for each to cooperate equally.
“It is our recipe to promote the development of a continent that has been too often underestimated, to build its stability and to guarantee a right so far denied to many youths: the right not to have to emigrate.”
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