Esteemed President of the General Assembly, distinguished delegates, excellencies, ladies and gentlemen,

As the world meet in this great chamber where the GOOD, BAD AND UGLY in the symbolic house of nations, a house built to prevent wars, to guarantee peace, and to protect human dignity.

It was born from the ashes of global conflict, with promises too sacred to betray: cooperation over confrontation, dialogue over destruction, and justice over tyranny.

And yet——those promises stand fractured.

This is not a time for politeness. This is a time for truth. The United Nations is not only a story of the good it has achieved, but also of the bad it has tolerated, and the ugly truths it has concealed.

The Good – What We Must Acknowledge-

Yes, the United Nations has done good.

It has been a forum where enemies could speak when they could not shake hands. It has nurtured treaties that reduced nuclear threats. Its agencies—UNICEF, WHO, UNESCO, WFP—have fed the hungry, healed the sick, and educated children in the most forgotten corners of our world.

For this, it deserves respect. Without its humanitarian arms, millions more would have perished.

But recognition without honesty becomes hollow. Because alongside the good lies the bad and the ugly.

The Bad – What We Must Confront-

The bad is in the failures of courage.

The United Nations was built to prevent wars. Yet from Asia to Africa, from the Middle East to South America, wars rage while this Assembly debates procedure. Syria burns, Sudan bleeds, the Congo cries, Gaza mourns—and this chamber too often responds with silence, vetoes, or watered-down resolutions.

The Security Council, meant to be the guardian of world peace, has become a hostage to its own structure. The veto—a relic of the Second World War—places the interests of five nations above the cries of five billion people.

And so, smaller nations are told to respect sovereignty, while stronger nations violate borders with impunity. In this house of equals, some are far more equal than others.

The Ugly – What We Must No Longer Deny-

But then, there is the ugly—the wound that festers.

• The hypocrisy of nations that preach peace while selling weapons that fuel death.

• The duplicity of leaders who sit here to draft declarations of rights, then fund militias and coups abroad.

• The betrayal of continents bled dry for resources, while their people are left to starve.

Africa’s wars are sustained by foreign greed. The Middle East has become a chessboard for pipelines and power. South America suffers assassinations, narcotics violence, and destabilizations—too often engineered or exploited by those who claim to defend democracy.

And the great powers—America, European elites, and China—are not guardians of peace. They are predators of influence. Their geopolitical maneuvering fractures continents, undermines sovereignty, and replaces the dream of unity with a nightmare of domination.

Even within societies themselves, war rages. Not with tanks, but with ideology. The right fights the left, the center fights the extremes, and the disillusioned fight them all. These wars of identity and belief tear nations apart, fueling mistrust, extremism, and despair.

A House Divided-

What, then, is left of this United Nations?

Too often, it has become a sanctuary for speeches instead of solutions. A theater for applause rather than accountability.

The African Union, ASEAN, and other blocs mirror this decay. They see wrong and call it right. They shield leaders instead of defending citizens. They prefer silence to confrontation, comfort to courage.

If these institutions cannot stand for peace, then they stand for nothing.

A Call for Reckoning-

And so I say what many whisper: perhaps it is time to disband institutions that no longer serve their founding purpose.

Why cling to a United Nations that is neither united nor a true community of nations? Why sustain an African Union that shields tyrants while people suffer? Why uphold ASEAN when neutrality becomes an excuse for cowardice?

Disbanding does not mean abandoning peace. It means admitting that peace cannot rest on cracked foundations. It means building new frameworks—smaller, accountable, and representative—based on today’s realities, not yesterday’s ruins.

Toward a New Global CompactLet us imagine a new order:

• Where no nation has the power to silence all others.

• Where human rights violations trigger automatic consequences, not endless debates.

• Where Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Oceania sit as equal players, not pawns.

• Where peace is measured by the safety of the powerless, not the comfort of the powerful.

Yes, this will not be easy. It requires courage from the small, humility from the great, and sacrifice from us all. But it is the only path left to us.

A Warning and a HopeTo those who cling to the illusion of control, hear this warning:

Your wars of influence will not end in victory, but in ashes. The earth cannot endure endless rivalries, economic wars, and climate destruction. If you destroy the peace of the world, you will inherit not dominion—but desolation.

Yet there is hope. Hope that nations will rise above fear. Hope that people will demand justice louder than leaders demand power. Hope that we can remember our humanity deeper than the politics that divide us.

Conclusion –

The Final WordDistinguished delegates, we must be clear-eyed. The United Nations, the African Union, ASEAN—all have tried, but all have failed in too many ways.

The good cannot blind us to the bad. The bad cannot conceal the ugly.

If we are to save humanity, we must dare to unmake what is broken and reimagine what is possible. Disband the hollow institutions. Build anew.

For the child in Gaza, Sudan, South Sudan, Congo other countries with wars. For the mother in Kinshasa. For the farmer in Colombia. For the refugee drifting in the Mediterranean.

For the sake of a world that still deserves peace.

Let history not say we were the assembly that watched humanity fall.

Let it say we were the assembly that dared to rise again.

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Thank you.

By UBUNTU

Rooted in HUMANITY