United Nations Day message from President Erdoğan: The UN security council should be more fair

President Erdoğan included the following statements in his message:

"I congratulate the 81st anniversary of the founding of the United Nations (UN) with my most heartfelt feelings on behalf of my country and nation.

I congratulate the UN staff working in our country and in different parts of the world, especially the Secretary General Mr. Antonio Guterres.

Founded after the two World Wars with the will to "protect future generations from the disaster of war", the UN has assumed important responsibility since the first day for the maintenance of international peace and security and the promotion of development and prosperity.

The global challenges we face today, such as wars, humanitarian disasters, climate change, hunger and poverty, racism, xenophobia and anti-Islamism, show that the importance of the UN's founding mission has not decreased, but has increased.

Today, humanity longs for a future in which the common will set forth in the UN Charter is implemented, wars end and permanent peace prevails.

In order for the UN to properly fulfill these lofty responsibilities, it continues to be in the common interest of humanity for all countries to embrace the UN Charter more strongly and to support reforms to increase the effectiveness of the basic organs of the Organization.

At this point, it has become especially important to transform the UN Security Council into a structure that is more fair, inclusive and able to meet the expectations of the international community.

Crises and conflicts extending to other parts of the world, especially the genocide that took place in Gaza and cost the lives of more than 74 thousand Gazans, reveal how urgent this need is.

With this understanding, we support the UN80 Initiative initiated by the Secretary General; We work in close cooperation with the Organization in line with our goal of making Istanbul a UN headquarters.

With these thoughts, I celebrate October 24, United Nations Day, and I emphasize once again that we will continue our efforts to make the international system and the UN, which is at the center of it, a more effective and inclusive structure, with the belief that a more just world is possible."