ROME -- Pope Francis’s personal envoy for the war in Ukraine has said that multilateralism, meaning cooperation among various states and international actors, is the only way to face contemporary challenges, but also warned that such an approach today is “in great difficulty”.
In diplomatic jargon, “multilateralism” is generally understood to mean an alternative to the unilateral domination of global affairs by one or more superpowers, such as the United States.
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi said on August 27 that multilateralism is “indispensable because it’s the only way to translate the demanding awareness that ‘we’re all in the same boat’, that great vision of Pope Francis in ‘Fratelli tutti’, translating it also into places of understanding, discussion, examination, and … why not? .. also of making decisions.”
