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Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei has accused the UN of imposing a “socialist” agenda on its members and referred to as on nations to enroll to a “freedom agenda”, in a fiery speech that cemented his standing as a political provocateur beloved by the alt proper.
In his debut handle to the UN basic meeting in New York on Tuesday, Milei targeted on the 42-page “Pact for the Future” adopted by the UN on Sunday, which incorporates factors selling local weather motion, gender equality and regulation of synthetic intelligence.
“Argentina is not going to again any coverage that means the restriction of particular person freedoms or commerce, nor the violation of the pure rights of people,” Milei mentioned. “We invite all nations of the free world to hitch us, not solely in opposing this pact, however within the creation of a brand new agenda for this noble establishment: the liberty agenda.”
He added that the UN’s earlier 2030 sustainable growth agenda was “a supranational programme of a socialist nature” and accused the UN of turning into “multi-tentacled Leviathan that seeks to resolve what every nation state ought to do and the way the residents of the world ought to dwell”.
Milei has courted the worldwide highlight since taking workplace in December, talking frequently at multilateral summits and conservative political conferences and forming friendships with outstanding figures equivalent to Tesla chief government Elon Musk, whom Milei met with for the third time on Monday in New York Metropolis.
“My firms are actively on the lookout for methods to spend money on and assist Argentina,” Musk mentioned in a publish on his X platform on Tuesday.
Earlier this month in an interview with broadcaster LN+ Milei referred to himself as “one of the crucial related politicians on planet earth. One is Donald Trump and the opposite is me.”
Milei’s home agenda has largely targeted on fixing Argentina’s worst financial disaster in 20 years, primarily by rolling out a extreme austerity package deal designed to deliver down triple-digit inflation.
However the libertarian economist, who has denied the existence of human-caused local weather change and is a staunch opponent of Argentina’s legalisation of elective abortion, has additionally pledged to wage a “cultural battle” towards Argentina’s left.
He has dissolved Argentina’s girls’s and atmosphere ministries and shut down its anti-discrimination institute.
“I’m right here to warn you that we’re on the finish of a cycle,” Milei mentioned on the UN on Tuesday. “The collectivism and ethical posturing of the woke agenda have collided with actuality.”