On behalf of the General Assembly, i have the honor to welcome to the United Nations his excellency emmanuel macron, president of the French Republic , and invite him to address the assembly. You have the floor, your excellency. President macron thank you very much, madam president. Ladies and gentlemen, heads of state, ministers, ambassadors, friends, we are here at the General Assembly at a time when the secretarygeneral has chosen such an extremely important topic, the climate as our central topic, which we discussed yesterday, and we are seeing more and more inpatience everywhere, and we are seeing more and more around the world that many things can lead us to feel pessimistic. We are not meeting the challenge. The demands that we have set for ourselves, the goals that we have set for ourselves in the area of Global Warming or the combat to protect biodiversity, there are many tensions. Lever e world, the level is unprecedented, just what we saw what happened in the few days ago, t
Assembly i have the honor to welcome to the United Nations his excellency emmanuel macron, president of the french republic. And invite him to address the assembly. You have the floor, your excellency. President macron thank madam president. Ladies and gentlemen, heads of friends. Nisters, we are here at the general at a time when the secretarygeneral has chosen such an extremely important topic, but climate as our central topic, which we discussed yesterday and we see and inpatients everywhere we are seeing more and more around the world that many things can lead us to feel pessimistic. We are not meeting the challenge. The demand that we have set for ourselves the goals we have set for ourselves in the area of Global Warming or the combat to protect biodiversity. There are many tensions. The level isrld unprecedented when we see what just happened in the golf a few days ago the persian gulf or when we see the challenges that many of our friends are facing and i see many Friendly Face
Summit heads of state and government. On each one of these topics, the same question is asked of us, how to create an effective framework of cooperation between states and i believe its possible. I dont believe that the problems that we are facing can be resolved by diluting responsibilities or seeing a globalization that disregards our peoples, our nations and i go back to what mr. Trump, President Trump said this morning, and i dont believe that the crises that were experiencing can be resolved by turning inward. I truly believe in patriotism. But patriotism combines the love of ones nation and at the same time a universal location. I truly believe in sovereignty, a sovereignty that ensures autonomy and also what we need today is to reinvent what what i define or what i called a strong multi lateralism in my last statement to you. Not in this kind of, you know, old multi lateralism, but based on cooperation that strives to produce concrete results. We have demonstrated the effectiven
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