Javier Milei has used his address to the 81st United Nations General Assembly on September 23 to tell the organisation to its face it was completely off track. He told them that the “sacred covenant” of 1945 had been broken.
The Argentine president said the UN had become “a useless organisation whose only purpose is to sustain a caste of fatally arrogant parasites masquerading as well-intentioned bureaucrats”. He followed it with a line from Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises: “Good people do not think about controlling the lives of their fellow human beings.”
The line, delivered from the green marble rostrum, is his third consecutive General Debate assault on the body since he took office in December 2023.
Milei began with the founding charter, which enshrines the peaceful settlement of disputes, freedom and dignity. He said those who were meant to guarantee collective security and human rights had “allowed chaos, violence and international terrorism to flourish”.
So-called defenders of rights, he said, had sheltered “bloodthirsty dictatorships and regimes that stone women in the streets”, voted “systematically” against Israel and stayed silent on Islamist terrorism and the killing of Christians in Africa.
In his 2024 address, he had complained that Cuba and Venezuela had been admitted to the Human Rights Council “without reproach”.
He listed what the UN had done that, in his view, it should not have.
Covid restrictions were not a public-health error but “a global experiment in social control disguised as science”. When states barred work, school and funerals and “millions of avoidable deaths” followed, “there is a word for it: genocide”.
He added the “gender agenda, environmental extremism and unchecked immigration”, along with Agenda 2030.
Each failure, he argued, produced not apology but a doubling-down. He predicted the UN’s Agenda 2045 would fail as well.
He also opposed state control of artificial intelligence, pledging that Argentina would stand “at the vanguard of freedom” and would not regulate the technology pre-emptively. Argentina has already left the World Health Organisation, a decision Milei tied to the pandemic.
An organisation created to defend members’ territorial sovereignty had “looked the other way”, he said regarding the Falkland Islands, or Las Malvinas, while Britain licensed oil work near the islands in defiance, Argentina argues, of General Assembly resolution 31/49, adopted in 1976.
“Those who follow the rules receive no reward for doing so, while those who break them face no repercussions whatsoever.”
Malvinas, he said, was a “national cause” and proof of the gap between resolutions and reality.
“There’s no shortage of words or resolutions. What is lacking is consequences.”
Milei said Buenos Aires had sanctioned companies involved in the oil work and their suppliers and had sent a National Sovereignty Defence Bill to Congress.
He again called on the United Kingdom to negotiate a peaceful settlement. The two countries fought a war over the islands in 1982. The islands remain a British overseas territory.
Milei is one of US President Donald Trump’s closest allies in Latin America.
On the same day as the speech, Buenos Aires and Washington announced a joint infrastructure plan linking Argentine sectors to Atlantic ports. Called the Andes-Atlantic Corridor, it envisages up to $7 billion (€6 billion) in US financing by 2027 for railways, pipelines, ports and energy links serving the Vaca Muerta shale basin and the mining provinces of the northwest.
He told the hall Argentina had aligned itself “without ambiguity with the West”, naming the United States and Israel.
🚨 WOW!! Argentina President Javier Milei just walked up to the mic at the United Nations and RIPPED THEM TO THEIR FACES
"It's become a USELESS organization whose only purpose is to sustain a caste of fatefully arrogant PARASITES masquerading as well-intentioned bureaucrats!"… pic.twitter.com/nIgoZFdHs0
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 23, 2026
