As we reflect on the UN’s 80th year, there is much to commemorate.

No international organisation in history has done more to lift people out of poverty, eliminate disease, respond to natural disasters, uphold human rights, and prevent conflict. The United Nations has maintained ceasefires, secured peace deals through its good offices, and helped support States on everything from state building to demining to conducting elections. It has facilitated the adoption of nearly thirty disarmament treaties and has provided humanitarian assistance to more than 100 million people each year, from Palestine to Sudan to Myanmar.

To this day, the UN remains the primary convening forum for the world, the stage on which we defend international law and seek – as the Charter dictates – “to save succeeding

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