UN 'unable to display the leadership' to meet current global challenges: Turkish foreign minister

By Diyar Guldogan

WASHINGTON (AA) - The UN has proven unable to show the leadership to meet current global challenges, said Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Monday.

"Both the international community and the United Nations are facing a historic test," Fidan told the UN Summit of the Future in New York.

"Unfortunately, the United Nations has been unable to display the leadership that it should in the face of ever-growing threats to humanity today.”

The high-level conference is bringing world leaders together to forge a new international consensus on how to better present and safeguard the future.

Fidan said an effective new structure is needed, one that will produce common solutions to global problems.

"We need a more just, inclusive and effective multilateral model. Comprehensive reform is needed in the United Nations, especially in the Security Council," he added.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has long pushed for reforms to the UN, often using the slogan “The world is bigger than five,” referring to the Security Council’s unrepresentative membership.

Erdogan has also decried the UN’s lack of effectiveness in responding to various international crises, especially the nearly year-old Israeli war on Gaza, which has killed over 41,000 people, mostly women and children, and injured over 95,000 others.