Mitsuo Ohashi, President of the World Federalist Movement Association (Japan), expressed gratitude to Tshilidzi Marwala, Rector (UN Under-Secretary-General) of the United Nations University, and to Siddharth Chatterjee, the UN Resident Coordinator in China. He clarified the movement’s core aim: to reform and strengthen international institutions—including the UN—and international law so that people can live together across differences of nationality, ethnicity, and religion. Amid mounting global turbulence, he positioned this forum, held on the 80th anniversary of the UN, as a springboard to future-oriented action and pledged to apply its outcomes to the Association’s work.
Reporter: Koki Imon
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Full Statement (English Translation)
“I am Mitsuo Ohashi, President of the World Federalist Movement Association. I will offer my greetings while seated.
First, I would like to extend my sincere thanks to Mr. Siddharth Chatterjee for joining us today. I also wish to express my appreciation to Rector Tshilidzi Marwala of the United Nations University, who attended this gathering in June last year and has joined us again. The organizer today is the parliamentary group of the World Federalist Movement, and I serve as President of its civil counterpart, the World Federalist Movement Association. Once again, my name is Ohashi.
The World Federalist Movement aims to reform and strengthen international institutions—including the United Nations—and international law, and ultimately to establish a world federation, realizing a society in which people live together across differences of nationality, ethnicity, and religion. In today’s unsettled international environment, this meeting is a valuable opportunity to consider the UN’s future on its 80th anniversary. We pledge to carry today’s discussions into our future activities. That concludes my brief remarks.”
