Mr. President, excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, over the last few days, over the last week, from this rostrum and in the corridors of the General Assembly, the following idea was heard many times. There are tectonic shifts underway in global politics. A fairer, multipolar world order is emerging before our very eyes. The countries of the global South and East are asserting themselves as sovereign centers of development. They're taking responsibility for ensuring security in their own regions. They are demonstrating a commitment to international law. They are refuting external pressure. They're showing interest in the prosperity of all states, not just a select few. Such a constructive philosophy is also the basis for Russia's foreign policy, and it is supported by our countless friends. It is the bedrock of cooperation at the CIS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the BRICS, and in other global majority fora. Yet this is not to everyone's liking. The Western minority, which dominated for 500 years, thanks to others resources, continues to try to maintain its privileges and to impose its own rules on everyone else. The West continues to use brute force to act unpredictably, to engage in all sorts of ventures putting at risk the life and prosperity of millions, if not billions, of people, on our planet.

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We need to defeat extreme poverty, and we also need to achieve well-being for all, to bring about a better world which is so urgent a task. The scourges of our time are the greatest threat and greatest danger to our societies, because they deprive us of our heritage. And we see major crimes linked to drug trafficking and organized crime which are forms of terrorism which assail us and make us sick. Against this intimidating backdrop, our purpose, our vow, our commitment has been and remains clear, and we aspire to gather with more peoples around the urgent need to curb these afflictions and to bring about safety and to provide education food, health, peace and development for all. We would like warmly to greet all delegations who are present here, and we hope that you will join our commitment to address these challenges and to alleviate the suffering that we have mentioned. There are many proposals that we have mentioned, and we wish to stress the strength that the BRICS countries, for instance, have shown in striving for better living conditions for their people and the right of all to achieve sustainable development in a complementary way. We would like to recognize and pay tribute to all brothers and sisters throughout the world who believe in ideals, principles and values that are valuable to us all as humanity. To continue moving towards achieving the most important, significant battle, which is to achieve peace so that we can defeat poverty once and for all. It is in this battle that we all have to wage to achieve peace.

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Mr. President, it is in this spirit that Indonesia presents its candidature for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for the 2029 2030 term. Our commitment is clear: fostering unity, advancing peace. Fostering unity means rebuilding trust in the multilateral system and keeping channels of dialogue open. Advancing peace requires us to uphold international law and make effective use of the tools available to us. Indonesia will work to keep dialogue open, build common ground and turn shared responsibility into practical cooperation. We will uphold the UN charter consistently to maintain international peace and security. We will bring the same principle that guides our foreign policy to engage with all and keep the space for cooperation open. As President Prabowo Subianto mentioned in this very lectern last year, 1000 friends are too few and one enemy is too many. The same approach guides Indonesia's engagement with all partners through ASEAN, G20, D-8, BRICS, MIKTA and the UN. Indonesia will extend the friendship to deliver practical cooperation. Mr. President, 81 years ago, Indonesia fought against colonialism so we could chart our own future. Today, we reaffirm our promise for a future peace we all share. Also one year ago, President Prabowo Subianto called upon us to draw closer, not drift apart. Today, I carry that call forward. And as we draw closer, let us also make each other stronger. Strong enough for our nations to withstand crisis. Strong enough for our regions to preserve cooperation. Strong enough for our institutions to deliver for people. Because resilience is not simply about surviving the storms, it is about having the strength to keep moving forward together, and only through our collective resilience can the United Nations be strong enough to fulfill the promise we made 81 years ago a future of peace for generations to come.

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But if the West wants to take its rightful place in the emerging multi-polar world, it must change. It must understand that the future of our planet lies in cooperation and not confrontation. Yes, it will have to make room on the global bench of international relations and do so in a meaningful way. It will require abandoning the policies of neocolonialism and putting aside the self-imposed isolation to which the EU is condemning itself by creating a new Iron Curtain along its borders with Belarus and Russia. Now on the UN. Is our organisation keeping pace with the times? No, it does not correspond to today's realities. It cannot keep up with change and it is not reforming significantly. Criticism of our organisation is growing every year and it is fairly justified. The very fact that new international global initiatives are emerging outside the system, for example Trump's Board of Peace or the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, China's project. This confirms that the UN is failing to recognise new trends. That is why new formats of cooperation are emerging. The BRICS, the SCO and regional economic and political alliances and they are gaining momentum. But we in Belarus do not see them as competitors to the UN, but rather as catalysts for necessary reform. We have a recipe for restoring the UN to its intended purpose. And it's very simple. Individual countries must stop using the organisation, our shared organisation, for their own selfish ends, and they must begin to think about the fate of our planet, our shared planet as a whole. Only then will the theme of this session cease to be a romantic wish, and instead become a real programme of action. Concrete structural steps are also necessary. First, reform of the UN Security Council. This body cannot remain in a form that was appropriate for the mid-20th century. The council must be strengthened by expanding the category of permanent members to include the countries of the South, which today play an ever increasing role in world affairs. The voice of the global majority must be heard loud and clear in the Security Council. Second, restoring respect for international law and the UN Charter and specifically respect for the law, not the rules based order. The UN Charter has been and remains the only universal document that recognises the sovereign equality of all states. Third, reform of specialized UN agencies. First and foremost, the international financial institutions, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the International Finance Corporation, the World Trade Organization.

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