The undertaking comes from Finnish ambassador Kari Alanko at his national day celebration in Pretoria.

Finland’s Ambassador Kari Alanko says he’s proudly representing the country adjudged to be the happiest on the planet.

But he sounds a note of warning that with increasing nationalism and unilateralism the multilateral international governance system cannot be taken for granted.

Chief Operations Officer at the Department of International Relations and Cooperation Ibrahim Saley says South Africa and others cannot survive in a world where the whim of the powerful dictates the course of events.

The world must learn the lesson of the two great wars and cherish the peace that has followed them.

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