UN High-Level Week

Sep 26

*General Assembly Hall at the High-level plenary meeting to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations*

September 25

The UN High-Level Week is arguably the United Nations’ premier diplomatic week, bringing over 140 dignitaries from around the world. Among the myriad topics discussed, we were grateful for several bold pro-life and pro-family statements made, including at a historic pro-family side event!

UN High-Level Week Speeches

Below are some excerpts from speeches that touched on national sovereignty, family, and religious freedom 👇

United States

During his speech, President Donald Trump lamented over the inefficiency of the UN, saying that “The UN is such tremendous potential,” yet, “it's not even coming close to living up to that potential. For the most part, at least for now, all they seem to do is write a really strongly worded letter and then never follow that letter up.” President Trump also criticized the UN for supporting a climate and immigration agenda that ends up hurting countries. “Both the immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe if something is not done immediately,” President Trump explained.

Argentina

President Javier Milei criticized the UN's “supranational model of government comprising international bureaucrats that sought to impose on citizens across the world a specific way of life.”

“The United Nations has moved from an organization that sought to mediate peace between peers to an organization that claims not only to decide what every nation state does, but also what all individuals, wherever they may be in the world, must do.”

“Argentina decided to step aside from this process because we saw in Agenda 2030 the improper expenditure of scant resources for purposes that we don't share in order to distract attention from the real global difficulties.”

Hungary

“In Hungary, we do consider family as the basis of society. But we have to understand that there is a very aggressive, extreme liberal mainstream which has been attacking family not only as an expression but as an institution as well. Therefore, I think it's appropriate to clarify what we Hungarians do mean under family. We do mean that family consists of a mother, a father, and children. Where mother is a woman, father is a man.”

“5 % of GDP we spend on supporting the families, which is far number one in the OECD area. And currently, a family -based tax revolution is going on in Hungary. [...] Our basic principle is that if you decide to have a kid that must not put you in a less advantageous position compared to if you do not have a kid, we do consider children as blessing.”

Italy

President Georgia Meloni talked about the need for a “pragmatic, realistic” UN reform, “one that respects the sovereignty of nations and opens to shared solutions.”

“Likewise, the United Nations cannot hypocritically consider some human rights less worthy of protection than others. I'm thinking above all of the denied value of religious freedom and of the tens of millions of people worldwide, largely Christians, persecuted, massacred in the name of their faith.”

‘Dear colleagues, 30 years of blind faith globalization have ended. Its aftershocks were underestimated and today we face unexpected consequences which were not truly unexpected, grave in their impact on citizens, families, and businesses”

More From the UN-High Level Week

*RFK Jr. at a UN meeting on non-communicable diseases*

RFK Blasts UN Gender/Abortion Agenda “U.S. Health Chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the U.N. today that the U.S. cannot accept language that promotes gender ideology or that promotes an international right to abortion.” C-Fam

U.S. Attacks Gender Ideology at UN Conference “Thirty years after First Lady Hillary Clinton famously declared “women’s rights are human rights and human rights are women’s rights,” at a landmark UN women’s conference, the U.S. criticized the UN for becoming confused about what a woman is.” C-Fam

Historic Family Conference at UN “During a historic pro-family event on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, governments warned that the family is “under siege” from gender ideology, individualism, loose sexual morality, war, and economic threats.” C-Fam

Iulia Cazan

Iulia is the Associate Director of Government Relations at C-Fam where she follows UN meetings, reports on UN developments, and assists the team with UN policy research.