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133 sentences in 27 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.
Fiji · Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati Lalabalavu · Day 3 · 16 sentences
- I bring warm greetings from the people of Fiji and from the blue Pacific continent.
- Carbon emitted from the Pacific takes our shorelines, our homes, and our sacred places.
- Mr. President, the Pacific knows the cost of militarization and nuclear testing.
- Our ocean carries the memory of decisions made elsewhere, but suffered by Pacific peoples.
Vanuatu · Odo Tevi · Day 6 · 15 sentences
- On behalf of the government and people of Vanuatu, I wish to convey a profound appreciation for your service to the United Nations and your engagement with the people of the Pacific.
- Mr. President, the security environment is also changing in ways that are particularly important for the Pacific region.
- The Pacific Islands are increasingly viewed through the lens of strategic competition.
- We welcome genuine partnerships, but we also say clearly, the Pacific must not become an arena for great power competition at the expense of Pacific priorities.
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.
Palau · Surangel Whipps · Day 2 · 10 sentences
- Pacific leaders have charted a practical roadmap through the Unlocking Blue Pacific Prosperity, UBPP, launched at COP28 and reinforced by the Pacific leaders, ocean statement adopted in Palau, UBPP unites 22 Pacific countries and territories to mobilize accessible, catalytic, catalytic investment for 100% sustainable ocean management, robust food systems, and resilience, livelihoods.
- As chair of the Pacific Island Forum and AOSIS, and through Palau's leadership on the high-level panel for sustainable ocean economy, we continue to call for an ocean agenda that meets the scale of this challenge.
- The Pacific Resilience Facility is one practical answer, the PRF.
- Endorsed by the Pacific leaders, the PRF is the first Pacific-led, owned, and managed regional financing facility dedicated to climate and disaster resilience, and the first international financial institution collectively owned by the Pacific focused on turning resources into real community-level resilience.
Japan · Takaichi Sanae · Day 1 · 7 sentences
- For many years, we have engaged in dynamic trade in the free and open seas spanning the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean, and together we have built a strong and prosperous region.
- To that end, Exactly 10 years ago, former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo advocated a free and open Indo-Pacific, FOIP, at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development, TICAD, held in Kenya.
- Amid this situation in May this year, I announced the updated Free and Open Indo-Pacific, FOIP.
- The security of the Indo-Pacific and Euro-Atlantic is inseparable.
Australia · Anthony Albanese · Day 3 · 7 sentences
- In our region, the Indo-Pacific, we are elevating relationships that help to build sovereign capability and offer nations sovereign choice, free from coercion, so that our partners can address the big issues confronting them: economic security, human development, energy security, transnational crime, sovereign capabilities, trade and investment, and science and technology.
- Whether it's our support for our Pacific family, our partnerships in Southeast Asia, the elevation of our relationships with Japan, India, and the Republic of Korea, or the deepening of our partnerships with Europe and Canada, this is our approach.
- Our geography gives us a unique perspective as a Pacific nation inhabiting an entire continent and connected to Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean, and Antarctica.
- We are investing in the multilateral system by elevating Pacific voices in shaping global decision making, working with them to advance their development needs and counter the transnational organised crime that is spreading across the beautiful Pacific Ocean that we share.
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.
Micronesia (Federated States of) · Aren Palik · Day 5 · 6 sentences
- Extreme weather events, sea level rise, and resource degradation are eroding stability across vulnerable regions, especially the Pacific.
- We underscore the importance of safeguarding maritime security across the Blue Pacific.
- Additionally, it is crucial that all stakeholders, including Acheson coastal states, indigenous people and local communities in the Pacific are meaningfully consulted prior to such a decision.
- Mr. President, We must address the growing threat of plastic pollution that degrades the Pacific ecosystem and communities.
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.
Canada · Anita Anand · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- We are exploring new opportunities with partners in the Indo-Pacific, the Gulf region, and Latin America.
- Canada is also a Pacific nation, and we are absolutely committed to a free, open, and inclusive Indo-Pacific region.
- We have increased our naval presence in the Indo-Pacific and are offering the Dark Vessel Detection Program to our partners.
New Zealand · Victoria Louise Hallum · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- We thank you for your visits to the Blue Pacific and for your attention to the unique situation of Pacific Island countries and other small island developing states.
- President, as Pacific Island Forum leaders recently reaffirmed in Palau, Climate change remains the single greatest threat to the livelihoods, security, and wellbeing of Pacific peoples.
- including some of our Pacific neighbors.
Chile · José Antonio Kast · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- 64 years ago in this same forum, the then President of Chile, Jorge Alessandri, described our country, Chile, as a large, narrow nation between the Andes and the Pacific, extending from there till the moving expanse of the Antarctic.
- Chile has a lot of sunlight, the heat of the sun, a long Pacific coast, lakes.
Türkiye · Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Naoero · David Ranibok Adeang · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Paraguay · Santiago Peña Palacios · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Botswana · Duma Gideon Boko · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Honduras · Nasry Juan Asfura Zablah · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Greece · Kyriakos Mitsotakis · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Mexico · Roberto Velasco Álvarez · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Togo · Robert Komlan Edo Dussey · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Cuba · Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Singapore · Vivian Balakrishnan · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Belarus · Maxim Ryzhenkov · Day 5 · 1 sentence