French President Emmanuel Macron, who has taken over as President of the United Nations General Assembly for the last few days, is addressing world leaders on the platform in his last speech as president, asking them to reaffirm their commitment to international law. He called on nations to be strong against the rhetoric of defeat and the abuse of power by dominant empires to eradicate the resurgent “law of the jungle.

In his role for the Élysée Palace, Macron underscored the stark dichotomy the world is put in front of: going down the path of the “chaotic nature” or fighting for a “civilized international society. His impassioned speech addressed various crises in the world that faced him, and strongly condemned the international community’s inability to meet the urgent human and security challenges.

In talking about the current European war, Macron urged Moscow and Kyiv to reach a “double moratorium” on attacks on civilian and energy facilities. He had just spoken with officials at The White House about the war and described the devastation of infrastructure and violations of human rights as a “new era of barbaric acts. He also called for an end to attacks on commercial shipping in the Black Sea, an important corridor for Ukraine’s agricultural exports.

When it came to the “wretched situation in Gaza”, Macron’s demeanor was visibly frustrated. He chided the international community for its inaction and voiced doubts about its credibility after pounding the rostrum. Despite the euphemisms of peace as he put it, some say peace has been achieved, he added, but it has not made it easier to deliver the humanitarian aid required by agencies such as the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which is a “spectacle that shames the world” to be withheld.

Last, Macron turned to the new field of artificial intelligence, in stark contrast to U.S. President Donald Trump’s call for the rejection of regulating AI globally. The French president called for countries to work together to develop an open-source frontier AI model. He proposed that countries could build their own cutting-edge, independent framework, which would help them to stay out of the technological jangle of the U.S. and China.