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77 sentences in 20 speeches for Africa
Download CSVGhana · John Dramani Mahama · Day 3 · 18 sentences
- But, Mr. President, last year from this very podium, I made a solemn pledge on behalf of Africa and the global African diaspora to seek full international recognition of the transatlantic trafficking and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity.
- It was adopted because the structural legacies of those historic crimes continue to fuel systematic racism, economic marginalization, and a global financial architecture that is weighted against Africa and people of African descent.
- It requires dismantling the persistent engines of exploitation, unfair global trade, predatory resource extraction, discriminatory credit ratings, unsustainable debt burdens of the global south, and the continued export of raw materials from Africa while real value addition and job creation occur elsewhere.
- Africa is home to 1.5 billion people.
Zimbabwe · Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa · Day 3 · 8 sentences
- Our experience in Southern Africa has taught us that dialogue is a shared fortitude and not a weakness.
- and conflict resolution from communities across the world, including within Africa.
- As such, Zimbabwe shall support Africa silencing the guns agenda and strong action against terrorism, organized crime, illicit arms flows, and illegal resource trafficking.
- The long-standing position of Africa is outlined in the Azurine consensus and the city declaration should be granted.
South Africa · Ronald Ozzy Lamola · Day 3 · 8 sentences
- The end of apartheid also marked the end of a system that exported violence and instability across southern Africa.
- We approach our leadership of a regional bloc that is home to a quarter of Africa's population, the Southern African Development Community, with a firm resolve to champion greater regional integration, industrialization, and trade.
- The Africa Expert Panel report calls for an end to incrementalism.
- Africa and much of the global south need multilateral actions to free resources absorbed by debt services and redirect them towards development.
Equatorial Guinea · Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue · Day 3 · 6 sentences
- Excellencies, this vision is especially relevant for Africa, which needs investments that can allow it to develop local value chains, build infrastructure, advance industrialization, strengthen human capital, incorporate new technologies, and generate employment, especially for the continent's large youth population.
- A more productive and industrialized Africa will be a stronger partner to the benefit of all of those wanting to halt its immigration.
- Africa brings together 54 United Nations member states and represents a fundamental share of the political and demographic reality of the 21st century.
- We must move towards a more balanced international community in which Africa participates fully in global decisions and strengthens its ability to lead its own development.
Nigeria · Kashim Shettima · Day 3 · 5 sentences
- Africa cannot continue to fill the council's agenda while remaining absent from its permanent membership.
- Nigeria demands, in accordance with the Delwin consensus and the safety declaration, at least two permanencies for Africa.
- Africa contributes less than 4% of the greenhouse gas emissions, yet we are disproportionate consequences.
- Africa must move beyond its historical role as an exporter of raw materials toward greater value addition.
Barbados · Mia Amor Mottley · Day 3 · 5 sentences
- From the indigenous peoples of the Americas to the diverse peoples from Africa, Europe, and Asia.
- Africa, with 54 states, has no permanent seat.
- For the Caribbean, for Africa, and for those countries concerned.
- It is the same mindset that caused a global map to remain grossly inaccurate on the size of Africa for centuries.
Somalia · Hassan Sheikh Mohamud · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- Africa remains unrepresented in the permanent category and not represented enough in the permanent category as well.
- Somalia works to uphold the principles of the United Nations Charter and Constitutive Act of the African Union, strengthening cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union, prevent conflict, and support peaceful Africa-led solution with global benefits.
- Somalia's membership of the East African Community, our leadership in the whole of Africa initiative, our ratification of the agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area, and our continuing efforts toward its accession to the World Trade Organization, demonstrates Somalia's commitment to the regional integration and rules-based international order.
- As we march forward with purpose and determination, we invite Africa and the rest of the world to remain our steadfast companions on this journey.
Liberia · Joseph Nyuma Boakai · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- As a current member of the United Nations Security Council, Liberia is putting these principles into practice while confronting evolving threats across West Africa, including transnational organized crime, cyber war, and illicit according trafficking along maritime corridors in the Gulf of Guinea.
- In Africa, 60% of our population is under 25.
- Yet 80% of Security Council mandates concern Africa peace and security, while Africa remains without a single permanent seat on the organ responsible for global peace.
- Africa demands no fewer than two permanent seats with all accompanying rights and responsibilities, including the veto, so long as it exists, as well as additional non-permanent seat, correcting the imbalance is no not a favor for Africa.
Madagascar · Michaël Randrianirina · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- We must also correct the historical imbalance affecting Africa's representation on the Security Council.
- Indeed, Africa cannot remain on the margins of decisions.
- Africa should be granted permanent representation on the Security Council in accordance with the Ezulwini Consensus and the Cirt Declaration, which express a common position grounded injustice, equity and representativeness within the African Union.
Côte d’Ivoire · Tiémoko Meyliet Koné · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- Ladies and gentlemen, Africa is bearing the brunt of the decline of multilateralism and the difficulties the United Nations has faced in recent years.
- My country once again reaffirms its support for an ambitious reform of the Security Council so as to ensure permanent representation for Africa in this important body whose decisions directly affect our peace and security.
- Africa contributes the least to global greenhouse gas emissions, yet remains among the regions most hit the hardest by their consequences.
Portugal · Luís Montenegro · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Senegal · Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Yemen · Abdullah Abdulkader Al Alimi-Bawzer · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- international reports have exposed growing cooperation between the terrorist Houthi militias and terrorist organizations, including in the Horn of Africa, through networks linking militias, terrorist groups, smugglers, and organized crime networks, thereby undermining states and threatening security and stability.
- Yemen that's a partner for its neighbors, a responsible guardian of its strategic location, a bridge for trade and cooperation between the Arabian Peninsula, the Horn of Africa, and the wider world.
Guyana · Mohamed Irfaan Ali · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Comoros · Azali Assoumani · Day 3 · 1 sentence
European Union · António Costa · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Israel · Benjamin Netanyahu · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Thailand · Anutin Charnvirakul · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) · Rob Jetten · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Greece · Kyriakos Mitsotakis · Day 3 · 1 sentence