Recommendation 2288 (2025)1Provisional version

The need for a renewed rules-based international order

Parliamentary Assembly1. The Parliamentary Assembly draws the Committee of Ministers’ attention to its Resolution 2581 (2025)“The need for a renewed rules-based international order”, in which it takes stock of the current challenges tothe rules-based international order as established following the Second World War. The shift towardsmultipolarity, with groups of countries coalescing around diverging approaches and visions as regards values,systems of governance and the international order itself, is accompanied by the rapid rise of authoritarianism,nationalism, isolationism, unilateralism and pure power politics. This phenomenon has been underscored bythe Russian Federation’s ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine, which constitutes a grave and blatantviolation of the rules-based international order. The world is currently facing the highest number of conflictssince the end of the Second World War, and the United Nations Security Council is struggling to fulfil itsprimary responsibility of ensuring the maintenance of international peace and security due to the irreconcilablepositions and interests of its permanent members.

2. This context of global instability and insecurity is all the more worrying as, in addition to themaintenance of international peace, the world faces a number of other distinct and interrelated challenges thatcan only be addressed through concerted action, ranging from climate change and environmental degradationto mass migration, growing inequalities, global health risks, food and energy crises, terrorism and violentextremism, the rise of artificial intelligence and its impact on all aspects of society, and the exploration ofspace.

3. The Assembly strongly supports the renewal of the multilateral system of global governance, whichshould continue to be based on respect for international law and the principles enshrined in the Charter of theUnited Nations. Co-operation among international organisations sharing these universal values and principleswill be essential to safeguard multilateralism and to ensure that the momentous challenges ahead can beaddressed for the benefit of humanity.

4. Founded in 1949 as a peace project, the Council of Europe has made an outstanding contribution tostrengthening rules-based multilateralism by promoting democracy, human rights and the rule of law andcontributing to creating a single European legal space, through the European Convention on Human Rights(ETS No. 5) and its interpretation by the European Court of Human Rights, and more than 200 otherconventions. By strengthening democratic standards, the protection of human rights and respect for the rule oflaw, the Council of Europe contributes to democratic security and the promotion of international peace withinthe meaning of the Charter of the United Nations.

5. For these reasons, the Assembly makes a resolute call for strengthening the partnership between theCouncil of Europe and the United Nations, in line with the position taken by the Heads of State andGovernment of the Council of Europe at their Fourth Summit in Reykjavik in 2023, when they committed tostrengthen “the role of the Council of Europe in the evolving European multilateral architecture and in globalgovernance by enhancing its external dimension, through its liaison offices and through a new engagementbased on its core values with democracies in the world and its southern neighbourhood”.

1. Assembly debate on 28 January 2025 (3rd sitting) (see Doc. 16087, report of the Committee on Political Affairs andDemocracy, rapporteur: Ms Dora Bakoyannis). Text adopted by the Assembly on 28 January 2025 (3rd sitting).

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