Pope Francis said the need to reform the United Nations was "more than obvious" after the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war exposed its limits, in an extract of his new book published Sunday.
Pope Francis waves as he leads the Angelus prayer from his window at the Vatican, October 16, 2022. Vatican Media /Handout via REUTERS
The Argentine pontiff said Russia's February invasion of Ukraine highlighted the need to ensure the current multilateral structure—especially the UN Security Council—finds "more agile and effective ways of resolving conflicts." The organization was founded to prevent the horrors of two World Wars from happening again, but although the threat represented by those conflicts was still alive, "today's world is no longer the same," said Francis.
Francis denounced the unequal distribution of vaccines as a "glaring example" of the law of the strongest prevailing over solidarity.
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