French President Emmanuel Macron warned Tuesday against allowing an approach of "survival of the fittest" to take hold in international relations as he addressed the UN General Assembly, AFP reports.
Macron also mounted a defense of the current international order after President Donald Trump savaged the United Nations in a speech to the organization's General Assembly.
"That is the major risk of our time... a risk of seeing the survival of the fittest. It is the risk of seeing the selfishness of a few prevail," he said.
He said that the UN's "harshest critics are also those that want to change the rule of the game, because they want to exert domination."
In his speech, Macron also justified his diplomatic efforts in support of Ukraine and his recognition of a Palestinian state, which he announced Monday from the same podium.
"It's because there is this refusal of double standards that France will stand side by side with Ukraine, as we do for peace in the Middle East," he said.
