On September 25, 2025, Giorgia Meloni spoke in front of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Among the key points of her speech, the most important ones are the emphasis she put on global conflicts, with a specific reference to the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the Hamas-Israel one, and the need of a UN reform to improve the effectiveness of the Organisation. 

At the beginning of her speech, Meloni emphasized the current state of global unrest, citing the Global Peace Index 2024, which reports 56 ongoing armed conflicts worldwide, the highest number since World War II. Among the major conflicts underway Meloni highlighted the large-scale war of aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, and the Hamas-Israel conflict. Especially in regard to the second one, she condemned the disproportionate response that Israel had after the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, a response which, in her words, violated humanitarian norms and caused a massacre among civilians. This response led Italy to vote in favour of some of the sanctions proposed by the European Commission against Israel. She underlined that Italy’s historic position on the Palestinian question has always been the two-state solution and that the country is ready to recognise Palestine, but only under two conditions: the release of all Israeli hostages and Hamas's renunciation of any role in the government of Palestine. In this regard Italy is ready to work on a serious plan for the release of hostages, a permanent ceasefire, the exclusion of Hamas from any governance dynamic in Palestine, the gradual withdrawal of Israel from Gaza, and the realization of the two-state perspective.

Going back to her starting point, Meloni remarked that all these conflicts are a sign of the non-effectiveness of the UN, whose purpose when it was created 80 years ago was the one of preventing war. Instead right now peace, dialogue and diplomacy seem no longer able to prevail over the use of force. She remarked that the architecture of the UN as it is now is not up to the task in front of today’s challenges. In her opinion it is important to recognise that a profound reform of the United Nations is necessary and urgent, with the aim of creating an agile, efficient institution which must respect the principles of equality, democracy, representativeness, and accountability and which is able to respond quickly to crises, transparent in its mission and costs, capable of minimizing bureaucracy, waste and  duplications. 

Other important points that Giorga Meloni touched in her speech are the criticism of unsustainable environmentalism and its economic impacts, calling for more balanced approaches to climate change; the introduction of Italy's Mattei Plan for Africa, a cooperation initiative with 14 African nations focused on sustainable development rather than resource exploitation; and the debt relief efforts, in which Italy plans to convert over €235 million of debt from economically least developed and lower-middle-income nations into local development projects over the next decade.