On the occasion of United Nations Day 2025, marking the 80th anniversary of the Organisation’s founding, Italy reaffirms its commitment to effective multilateralism, grounded in the promotion of peace, the protection of human rights, and sustainable development.
The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella stated “Italy’s commitment to the United Nations, in compliance with the provisions made under Art. 11 of the Constitution, constitutes the backbone of our Country’s foreign policy. Believing and investing in the United Nations means converting into concrete actions the principle of international solidarity and of a world order based on respect for the rules. It means promoting the logic of collaborating between States as an alternative to subduing. Now, in the face of compelling global challenges and the alarming spread of armed conflicts, these convictions appear all the more well-founded and decisive.”
“In such a symbolic year, we have embraced with responsibility Italy’s election to the Human Rights Council for 2026–28, and we are committed to promoting the Olympic Truce ahead of the Milan-Cortina Games, at a time when the international community faces the highest number of active conflicts since the Second World War,” said Minister Antonio Tajani.
This year, Italy is also celebrating the 70th anniversary of its UN membership (14 December 1955). Italy took part in the 80th-anniversary celebrations in Rome at FAO on 16 October, where President Sergio Mattarella and FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu inaugurated the Museum and Network for Food and Agriculture – MuNe, funded by Italian Cooperation. Celebrations were also held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, where Italy is a partner of the exhibition “Shared lives, shared future”, inaugurated on 21 October by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Italy’s Permanent Representative at the United Nations, Ambassador Maurizio Massari.
(picture from the exhibition “Shared lives, shared future”)
