Macron Delivers Parting Critique of Russia, Israel in Final U.N. Address

At the close of his presidency, Emmanuel Macron stood before the United Nations General Assembly in September 2026 and chose candor over ceremony, directing pointed criticism at Russia and Israel while gesturing, without naming it, toward the United States. It was the farewell of a leader who has long cast France as the conscience of a multipolar world — a final argument, delivered from the highest diplomatic stage, that power must answer to principle. The speech leaves his successor with both an inheritance and a question: whether France will continue to speak as Macron believed it must.