French President Emmanuel Macron called Tuesday (September 22, 2026) for countries to recommit to international laws and the UN system over a resurgent “law of the jungle.”
Mr. Macron, giving his last speech to the UN’s signature annual diplomatic gathering as president, also railed against the humanitarian situation in Gaza while calling for a moratorium on strikes against civilian and energy targets in the Ukraine-Russia war . “My message is to stand firm. Do not yield to the situation which is developing…The rhetoric of defeat that is giving way to abuse of power by empires, threatening the sovereignty of some nations,” Mr. The French President, who has been a stalwart supporter of Ukraine and raised the country’s case in a meeting with U.S. “We’ve seen the destruction of civilian infrastructure, human rights violations. “What is our credibility worth if we remain inactive on Gaza? Some claim that peace has been achieved, but this has not opened up humanitarian deliveries.
President Donald Trump on Monday (September 21), called for Moscow and Kyiv to agree to a moratorium on striking civilian and energy targets.
“The question put to us, in very simple terms, is whether we want to live in this state of nature, with a kind of return to the law of the jungle, or in a civilized international society,” he said. Macron said. It’s a new era of barbaric acts,” he said. It is a spectacle that shames us all,” he said.
