Each year the General Assembly adopts texts that command broad agreement, and a share of them comes to nothing. This gap between the vote and the result erodes, one mandate after another, the credibility of multilateralism. As a candidate for Secretary-General, President Macky Sall meets it with a rare demand: to answer for execution before answering for announcement.

The lesson of an unimplemented text. A member state that sees its concerns written into a resolution, then set aside, forms a lasting conviction that the Organization's word does not bind it. That conviction costs more than silence, for it spreads from one file to the next and comes to govern how capitals regard the institution. President Macky Sall proposes to reverse this with fewer texts and more reporting, up to a public account of what has been accomplished.

One hundred and ninety-three states under the same Charter. A small island state and a permanent member of the Security Council proceed from the same founding text. Verifying that this equality holds in fact remains the most honest measure of the United Nations. President Macky Sall defends a Secretariat answerable to the whole membership, attentive to the most modest as to the most powerful and faithful to the same language in every capital. On that impartiality rests the office's capacity to mediate.

Three linked commitments. The vision statement filed with the Organization in March 2026 sets their terms. The impartiality of the Organization comes first. A diplomacy of prevention follows, because every major crisis of the past decade came with warning, and the belated response cost more for a lesser result. The third is development finance equal to the need: a state that spends more on servicing its debt than on its schools and clinics assembles the conditions of a coming instability.

A negotiator's record. These commitments proceed from twelve years at the head of a state and the chairmanship of the African Union in 2022. On behalf of a continent, President Macky Sall led the negotiations opened by the health crisis as by the food and energy crises. That is why his proposals take the form of obligations.

Africa at its heart, the world in its sights.

The vision statement is available on the United Nations website. All positions at www.mackysall.net