First Lady Melania Trump, presiding at U.N., urges Security Council to safeguard education and expand access to technology

First Lady Melania Trump, presiding over a United Nations Security Council meeting, told council members that "Peace does not need to be fragile" and urged them to safeguard education and expand access to technology as a path to enduring security.

Speaking from the Council's dais, Melania Trump framed lasting peace as dependent on societies that value "knowledge and understanding," saying that the next generation must be supported by an "infrastructure of understanding." "We are in the age of imagination," she said, and argued that technology can be "free and unrestricted by land borders."

The remarks tied education and technology explicitly to security goals. "The path to peace depends on us taking responsibility to empower our children through education and technology," Melania Trump said, and she encouraged members to "pledge to safeguard learning in our communities and promote access to heightened education for all."

Her closing appeal reiterated the theme: "I implore you to build a future generation of leaders who embrace peace through education," she said.

A broadcaster introducing the session noted the rarity of the moment, observing that a presidential spouse was occupying the president's seat at the United Nations' most powerful body for the session. The transcript contains no record of a formal proposal, motion, vote, or written resolution accompanying the remarks.

The session's next procedural steps, including whether Council members will act on the call to pledge, were not specified in the remarks recorded in the transcript.