Message from President Erdoğan to the United Nations

According to the post on the Presidential Communications Directorate's NSosyal account, President Erdoğan published a message on the occasion of October 24 United Nations Day and the 81st anniversary of the United Nations Organization.

In his message, Erdoğan congratulated the 81st anniversary of the founding of the UN and congratulated UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and UN employees working in Türkiye and different parts of the world.

Stating that the UN, which was established after the two world wars with the will to "protect future generations from the disaster of war", has assumed important responsibility since the first day for the maintenance of international peace and security and the promotion of development and prosperity, Erdoğan said in his message:

"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, on the contrary, it has increased. Today, humanity longs for a future in which the common will set forth in the UN Charter is realized, wars end and permanent peace prevails. In order for all countries to properly fulfill these lofty responsibilities undertaken by the UN, the UN "It continues to be in the common interest of humanity for them to support the Charter more strongly and to support reforms to increase the effectiveness of the basic organs of the Organization. At this point, it has become particularly important for the UN Security Council to have a more fair, inclusive structure that can meet the expectations of the international community. The crises and conflicts extending to other parts of the world, especially the genocide in Gaza that cost the lives of more than 74 thousand Gazans, reveal how urgent this need is."

With this understanding, Erdoğan stated that he supports the UN80 Initiative initiated by Secretary General Guterres and that they are working in close cooperation with the Organization towards the goal of making Istanbul a UN center, and said: "With these thoughts, I celebrate the 24 October 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 its center, more effective and inclusive, with the belief that a more just world is possible." he said.