Heads of state are also limited by borders.

"Last year, the United Nations conducted a worldwide consultation involving more 1 million people from 193 countries," wrote Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa, and Pedro Sanchez, Prime Minister of Spain. "And this year's UN General Assembly must respond by bolstering rules based multilateralism." "For starters, the consultation found that the expectations and hopes of of the world's women , men, girls and boys are strikingly similar. People want better access to basic healthcare, sanitation and education." "Especially encouraging is that young people worldwide clearly want more international cooperation." Perhaps, what young people understand from "international cooperation" is very different to what politicians think. In the US, "In 2019, the green card backlog touched 800,000, with over 60% of these being Indians,"Economic Times (ET). "Approximately 4,600 Haitians have been removed from the Untied States on repatriation flights from Texas to Haiti since September 19, a Homeland Security spokesman told CNN." "Thousands of migrants -- many of whom were Haitians -- had converged at the Del Rio International Bridge earlier this month, waiting to get processed by US immigration authorities." Spain is a member of the 27-nation European Union (EU), 19 of which, including Spain, share a common currency, the Euro, and are known as the Eurozone, europa.eu. Britain left the EU on 1 January of this year, dubbed 'Brexit', BBC. Having left the EU, Britain joined a new grouping with Australia and the US called AUKUS. "The UK, US and Australia have announced a historic security pact in the Asia-Pacific, in what's seen as an effort to counter China. It will let Australia build nuclear-powered submarines for the first time, using technology provided by the US," BBC. Since 1951, New Zealand has been part of the ANZUS Pact, a security treaty with Australia and the US, Britannica. Since mid-1980s New Zealand has become a nuclear free zone which made the pact inoperative as US Navy vessels could no longer enter New Zealand waters. The Queen of Britain, Queen Elizabeth II is head of state of 16 independent nations, including Australia, New Zealand and Canada, but not of the US, wikipedia. South Africa has been part of the African Union, which counts all 55 countries in Africa as members, since 1994, au,int. South Africa is also the 'S' in BRICS, a group of 5 countries, including China, wikipedia. NATO is a security organisation between the US and some, not all, European countries and has been involved in armed conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. "However, international organizations were built primarily to resolve inter-state challenges, not problems that transcend borders, such as financial crises, pandemics, terrorism, crime networks, threats to our oceans, or climate change," write the authors. Lofty ideals. But, international people don't vote in national elections, only citizens do. New Zealand has banned all foreigners to protect its people from Covid-19, BBC. Pandemics, climate change and financial crises do not obey borders. The poor and the weak suffer the most. It's encouraging that some leaders are beginning to listen. Is it enough?