From all over the planet, they came to the UN with a message: Fix things, particularly yourself

And from Germany’s foreign minister, Johann Wadephul: “It is up to us — the member states. We want these United Nations to be strong.”Maybe the idea itself is the main accomplishmentMultilateralism, the main thread of the United Nations since its post-World War II founding, remains the organization’s cornerstone. And credibility lives or dies with trust in multilateralism,” said Abdulla Khaleel, foreign minister of the Maldives. Ultimately, the United Nations may be an aspirational institution more than anything else. They are the very essence of our shared humanity,” said Dato Erywan Pehin Yusof, the foreign minister of Brunei.