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Title	Address by Chinese Premier Li Qiang at general debate of 80th session of UN General Assembly
Speaker	Li Qiang, Chinese Premier
Date	SEP 26, 2025
Event	UN General Assembly
Words	438
Link	Full text: Address by Chinese Premier Li Qiang at general debate of 80th session of UN General Assembly | english.scio.gov.cn

1	World Anti-Fascist War	세계 반-파시즘 전쟁, 중일전쟁과 제 2차 세계대전을 망라
2	vicissitudes	변화, 변곡

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War. It is also the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. Eighty years ago, fascism was defeated in fearless battles by countless heroic men and women around the world, and the U.N. was created upon their ideal of a world free of war.

An important outcome of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War, the U.N. was born out of a deep reflection on the scourge of two world wars.

Its founding initiated a historic experiment to escape the law of the jungle, and marked the beginning of an extraordinary journey, like building the postwar international order and pursuing peace and development. The past 80 years have been tortuous but purposeful. Today, the U.N. is the world's most universal, representative, and authoritative intergovernmental organization, and plays an irreplaceable, key role in global governance. With an international system centered around the U.N. and an international order based on international law, human society has realized overall peace, and achieved unprecedented levels of development and prosperity. The past 80 years have witnessed tectonic changes in our world. Straddling two centuries, this period saw human society leapfrog from the age of electricity and computers into a digital intelligence era. While the world we live in has changed enormously, the ideal of making it a better place remains unchanged. Looking back, we can draw a number of valuable inspirations.

First, peace and development are the strongest aspirations shared by the people of all countries. Throughout history, while the shadows of war and conflict have never fully gone away, no force has ever stopped humanity in its quest for peace and development. Having gone through two world wars, we must never forget the bitter lessons learned through bloodshed and loss of lives. For 80 years, a generally peaceful international environment has led to remarkable growth in the global economy. Today, as the desire for peace and development grows even stronger around the world, it is incumbent upon our generation to further strengthen the force for peace and development.

Second, solidarity and cooperation are the most powerful drivers for human progress. In the ferocious years of the World Anti-Fascist War, countries with different social systems, histories and cultures rose above their differences, fought side by side, and prevailed together. In the 80 years that followed, they weathered a succession of vicissitudes, such as the Cold War standoff, financial crises, and global pandemics, by staying connected and working together. All this proves a simple yet powerful point -- solidarity lifts everyone up, while division drags all down.