Mexico's Foreign Minister Addresses UN General Assembly on Global Challenges

Mexico's Vision: Mexican Humanism

• 🇲🇽 Mexico, under its first female president, is undergoing a transformation guided by Mexican humanism, prioritizing democracy, freedom, equality, and shared prosperity.
• 💡 This vision emphasizes justice, the dignity of all people, and inclusive social development, putting the poor first.
• ⚖️ A key principle is the separation of political and economic power, aiming for a moral economy that cooperates externally without subordination, upholding national sovereignty.

Domestic Achievements and Social Progress

• 📈 The UN has recognized Mexico's success in lifting 13.5 million Mexicans out of poverty through labor justice and social programs.
• 🌱 Significant progress includes reducing inequality, building peace, containing violence, and achieving justice for indigenous peoples, with an indigenous person now leading the Supreme Court.
• 🌳 Mexico boasts the world's largest reforestation program, planting a billion trees, and has expanded social programs for youth and guaranteed pensions for the elderly.
• 🚺 The government highlights the increasing role of women in power, with gender parity in legislative and judicial branches and a constitutional mandate for a gender perspective.

Global Challenges and Mexico's Stance

• ⚠️ The world faces immense challenges: persistent poverty amidst wealth, debt servicing exceeding health and education spending, and a tripling of arms expenditure.
• 🕊️ Mexico advocates for a moral economy of well-being, international financial architecture focused on collective well-being, and trade with shared benefits.
• 🤝 Peace is built from the ground up by addressing structural causes of violence, ensuring decent jobs, and promoting social inclusion.
• 🛑 Mexico calls for an end to the arms race, including illicit firearms trafficking, and emphasizes diplomacy, mediation, law, and dialogue to resolve conflicts.

Upholding International Law and Human Rights

• 🌍 Mexico stresses the urgent need to end wars in Gaza, Ukraine, and elsewhere, advocating for ceasefires and negotiated solutions with all parties involved.
• 🚫 The country rejects sanctions and trade embargoes that harm populations, reiterating its historic opposition to the embargo on Cuba and calling for its removal from state sponsor of terrorism lists.
• ⚖️ Upholding international law, including human rights and humanitarian law, is presented as crucial for safeguarding peace and preventing the vulnerability of weaker nations.
• ✊ Mexico condemns classism, racism, and all forms of discrimination, particularly the criminalization of migrants, advocating for their rights and addressing the structural causes of migration.
• 🚺 The commitment to gender equality is highlighted, with Mexico working to accelerate progress 30 years after the Beijing Declaration, ensuring gender parity and a strict gender perspective in policies.

Reinvigorating the United Nations

• 🎯 The UN must reassert itself as an institution that shapes narratives for human dignity, not just containing war and pandemics.
• 🏛️ It needs to return to its fundamental pillars: international peace and security, sustainable development, and the promotion of human rights.
• ⚙️ The UN's legitimacy depends on its ability to respond to global challenges, with a call for streamlining budgets and reviewing mandates.
• 👩‍💼 Mexico trusts that the next Secretary-General, ideally a woman from the region, will accelerate this transformation process for peace, justice, well-being, and planetary sustainability.