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55 sentences in 9 speeches for Pacific
Download CSVTonga · Lord Fakafanua · Day 4 · 17 sentences
- Nine months into my service as Prime Minister, I stand here mindful that Pacific leaders have come before me raising the same warnings, making the same appeals.
- Mr. President, Your Excellencies, the Pacific region spans one third of the Earth's surface.
- Through the 2050 strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent, we have set our own course and identified our thematic priorities.
- The Pacific must not become a staging ground for military escalation or a battleground for major power rivalry.
Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 14 sentences
- a nation of nearly 1,000 islands stretching across as many miles of the blue Pacific.
- Your unwavering advocacy on climate action and your repeated visits to our region told the world a simple truth, that the Pacific matters and that our challenges and how the world responds to them remain a litmus test for this organization and for us all.
- Mr. President, the Pacific faces a grave and growing threat.
- These are costly and demanding undertakings, and no Pacific country can win this fight alone.
Marshall Islands · Hilda Heine · Day 4 · 6 sentences
- like the Pacific Resilience Facility, a regionally managed platform, and the Marshall Islands Adaptation and Resilience Trust Fund, designed to enable donors to support our adaptation efforts.
- Our collective stability and security as Pacific Islands Forum members and as a UN member state will be now better addressed.
- Pacific Island leadership and that of all small island developing states as we find every multilateral milestone for oceans and fisheries, and we will continue to do so.
- As an ocean people, the consequences of getting it wrong are not from distant impacts, but adjacent to our waters, particularly in the North Pacific, both within the International Seabed Authority and unilateral actions.
Kiribati · Taneti Maamau · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- The Pacific Resilience Facility is a Pacific-led, Pacific-owned mechanism that strengthens the region's capacity to finance climate and disaster resilience.
- The Pacific's co-hosting of COP31 with Turkey later this year further demonstrates the value of local action.
- Kiribati reaffirms its support for frameworks that embody the spirit of partnership including the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda for Cities, ABAF, and the Pacific for the Future, which provide important foundations for strengthened international cooperation, solidarity, and collective action.
- For Pacific people, the consequences of nuclear weapons are not merely historical.
Tuvalu · Feleti Teo · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Therefore, The Dasiriki call for a fossil fuel free Pacific and the Funafuti call for climate justice and climate actions are critical Pacific-led instruments championing Pacific regional survival and global climate actions.
- Mr. President, in the Pacific, Pacific leaders have adopted the Pacific Resilience Facility, a regional financing mechanism to help our communities respond effectively to the growing impact of climate change.
- To value calls on the international community and our development partners to support the full capitalization of the Pacific Resilience Facility to enable Pacific-led and Pacific own solutions to build resilience where it matters most.
- Tuvalu is also gravely concerned by the escalating military activities around Taiwan, which threatens stability across the Taiwan Strait, disrupt international transportation and trade, and jeopardize peace and security in the Pacific and beyond.
Papua New Guinea · James Marape · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- For Papua New Guinea and all the nations of the Pacific, multilateralism matters.
- And with this, I want to place on record Papua New Guinea's fullest acknowledgement on all speakers from the Pacific who have spoken, all leaders who spoke.
- Thank you for being a strong voice of not just Papua New Guinea, but small nations, especially my small Pacific Island nations.
- We have our own challenges, but perhaps our position as a Pacific nation allows us to remind the larger powers of a simple reality.
Samoa · Mulipola Anarosa Ale Molioo · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- While we have one of the highest shares of renewable electricity in the Pacific, Samoa remains heavily dependent on imported fuels.
- Excellencies, the ocean defines who we are as Pacific people.
- We remain committed to implementing the Apia Commonwealth Ocean Declaration, the 2026 Pacific Island Forum Leaders Ocean Statements, and our own Samoa Ocean Strategy.
- In many of our Pacific countries, our water systems are highly vulnerable to disruptions.
Mexico · Roberto Velasco Álvarez · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Togo · Robert Komlan Edo Dussey · Day 4 · 1 sentence