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Download CSVBurundi · Évariste Ndayishimiye · Day 2 · 22 sentences
- Honored the In the name of God, the all-powerful, most merciful, distinguished President of the General Assembly, Mr. Secretary-General, Excellencies, Heads of State and Government, ladies and gentlemen, as President of the Republic of Burundi and the current chairperson of the African Union, allow me to first, on behalf of the people of Burundi and of Africa, congratulate His Excellency Dr. Khalilur Rahman, President of the General Assembly of the United Nations, on his election and wish him every success in the fulfillment of his mandate.
- This year, when Burundi holds the rotating chairmanship of the African Union, we are keenly aware of the responsibility that falls to us.
- As the African Union champion for the Youth Peace and Security Agenda, I have this year once again convened a continental youth dialogue coupled with the Women, Peace and Security Agenda.
- Excellencies, as an African and a voice for Africa at this time, and I hold the rotating chairmanship of the African Union, I must also state the following.
Ghana · John Dramani Mahama · Day 3 · 16 sentences
- And those words give my compatriots and I courage to uphold the Pan-African and anti-colonial heritage that was bequeathed to us by our forebears.
- I am fluent in Hausa, spoken across the West African savanna and the Sahel.
- 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.
- Mr. President, for centuries, this tragedy was rendered in the passive voice as though the millions of African men, women, and children just vanished into the shadows of time.
Kenya · William Samoei Ruto · Day 2 · 11 sentences
- At San Francisco, only four African countries were represented, while most of our continent remained under colonial rule.
- Only four African states were represented.
- The architecture of collective security was therefore designed at a moment when most Africans had neither a nation at the table nor a voice in shaping the institutions that it would govern the peace.
- UNDP estimates that subjectivities in credit ratings have cost African countries approximately $75 billion through excessive interest and foregone lending.
Eswatini · King Mswati III · Day 2 · 10 sentences
- The question is, How many more years should African leaders travel to New York and stand before this Assembly to call for a fair representation in the UN Security Council?
- On the African continent, continued instability validates the urgent need to strengthen African-led peace processes.
- There's also a need to support the capacity of African regional organizations to prevent conflict, mediate disputes, and build sustainable peace.
- During the 46th SADC Summit, Eswatini assumed the chairmanship of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation Troika, whose mandate is to promote peace and stability in the Southern African region.
Democratic Republic of the Congo · Judith Suminwa Tuluka · Day 2 · 9 sentences
- The admission of the African Union to G20 is certainly a major step in the right direction.
- As a member of the Security Council 2026-2027, we reaffirm our support for the common African position enshrined in the Ezulwini Consensus and the Sirte Declaration, that is to say, two permanent seats for Africa with all of the associated privileges, including veto rights as long as they exist, and two non-permanent additional seats.
- The peace agreement signed in Washington on June 27, 2025, the commitments made as part of the Doha process, and the roadmap coordinated by the African Union have opened up prospects that we have constantly supported.
- I commend the United States, Qatar, the African Union, African facilitators, regional partners, and all those who are sincerely striving to restore peace.
South Africa · Ronald Ozzy Lamola · Day 3 · 9 sentences
- Millions more South Africans have access to education, electricity, water and sanitation, housing and social protection than they did at the dawn of our democracy or under apartheid.
- As we speak, South Africans are preparing once again to exercise their democratic right, this time in the local government elections on the 4th of November 2026.
- 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.
- In the last year alone, African countries spent roughly the same amount on servicing debt as it needed to close our infrastructure financing gap.
Congo · Constant Serge Bounda · Day 6 · 9 sentences
- The Republic of the Congo, as a member of the Committee of Heads of States and Governments of the African Union on Security Council reform, the C-10 Committee, will not compromise on this shared demand.
- And let me quote the following, our contribution to supporting Namibia's liberation and then the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola through the 1988 Brazzaville Protocol, the efforts to end hostilities in the Central African Republic, Initiatives to promote reconciliation in Libya, where my country leads the African Union High-Level Committee.
- It is diplomacy based on dialogue, mediation, mutual respect, and African solutions to African problems.
- We reaffirm here and now the Pan-African vocation of our diplomacy and our commitment to international law.
Sierra Leone · Julius Maada Bio · Day 1 · 8 sentences
- No doable global solution on peace, Climate, food, energy, or technology can be built without African leadership.
- The common African position espoused in Ezewini Consensus and SOT declaration calls for no fewer than two permanent seats with all the rights and privileges of permanent membership, including the veto if it is retained and five non-permanent seats.
- As coordinator of the African Union Committee of 10, Sierra Leone will continue to advance that position.
- In March, this Assembly adopted a resolution led by Ghana and supported by the African Union and Caribbean Community recognizing the trafficking and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity.
Libya · Mohamed Younis Menfi · Day 2 · 8 sentences
- We, in the Arab and Islamic world, and on our African continent, do not approach this question as observers, for we live its consequences every day.
- Africa, whose journey we have followed since the founding of the African Union, is not the margin of the world.
- Decades ago, an African will emerged from the Libyan city of Sirte that contributed to the establishment of the African Union.
- That fact reminds us that Libya has never been merely a bridge between Africa and the Mediterranean, but a partner in shaping the African project itself.
Angola · João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço · Day 1 · 7 sentences
- Among these contributions to peace are several initiatives undertaken in Africa, of which I highlight the 21st Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State of the African Union on the Strengthening of Conflict Prevention and Resolution Mechanisms in Africa, recently held in Luanda, which opened serious and sound prospect for resolving the problems affecting peace and stability on the African continent.
- In this same context, Angola will host next October the Pan-African Forum for the Culture of Peace and Nonviolence, the so-called Luanda Biennial.
- Our paradigm for peacebuilding initiatives is based on the search for realistic and sustainable solutions within the principle of African solutions to conflicts in Africa.
- We call for effective implementation of the Security Council Resolution 2719, which must ensure a predictable, adequate and sustainable financing for African Union-led peace support operation authorized by the United Nations Security Council, because investing in Africa's capacity to prevent and resolve conflicts is also an investment in international peace and security.
Somalia · Hassan Sheikh Mohamud · Day 3 · 7 sentences
- Somalia supports the common African position and meaningful African representation in both categories of the Council.
- Given that many of the discussions directly concern African states, they have the right to full representation on equal par with all other permanent Security Council members.
- Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, Somalia currently broadly serves as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council and as a member of the African Union Peace and Security Council.
- 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.
France · Emmanuel Macron · Day 1 · 6 sentences
- Back in 2018, I already mentioned the role played by regional organizations and better coordination between these regional bodies and the UN at the Africa forward meeting in Nairobi with over 30 African heads of state and in Addis Ababa, the headquarters of the African Union, together with the UN, we stated clearly that the African Union and regional organizations should be fully equipped to play their role as regards peace and security on the African continent.
- In Paris in November, we will hold a meeting aimed at replenishing the African Union Peace Fund.
- For instance, the COVAX initiative in response to COVID in partnership with the WHO and the African Union.
- when it came to shoring up economies together with the International Monetary Fund to reform special drawing rights and make progress for African economies.
Algeria · Ahmed Attaf · Day 6 · 6 sentences
- In this regard, Algeria reaffirms its steadfast support for the common African position.
- We stress that correcting the historical injustice suffered by Africa requires permanent and fair African representation in the Security Council with full powers.
- Algeria is firmly attached to its African identity.
- This is undoubtedly the correct and proper approach to addressing the situation of the last colony on the African continent.
Morocco · Nasser Bourita · Day 1 · 5 sentences
- This effort has extended to the African continent, which suffers from the devastating effects of climate change.
- The Royal Initiative to establish three African Climate Commissions for the Congo Basin, the Sahel region, and the African Island States has generated promising momentum to strengthen African climate action and coordination among the states of the continent in addressing these challenges.
- Mr. President, despite its significant human, natural and civilizational assets, the African continent faces a gap between the scale of the commitments announced for its benefit by the international community and the value of what has actually been achieved on the ground.
- The most prominent of which are perhaps the royal initiative to enable Sahel states to access the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the African Atlantic States process, the African Atlantic gas pipeline project, as well as investments in regional infrastructure, cooperation in the areas of food security, fertilizer production, and training programs for African executives This is in addition to partnerships in the areas of health, renewable energy, and water resource management.
Nigeria · Kashim Shettima · Day 3 · 5 sentences
- Through ECOWAS, the African Union, and our Gulf of Guinea partnerships, we continue to advance mediation, democratic governance, counterterrorism, and maritime security.
- Nigeria further recognizes the African Continental Free Trade Area as one of the continent's most transformative opportunities.
- It can strengthen regional value chains, expand intra-African trade, promote industrialization, and attract investment.
- As a founding member of ECOWAS, Nigeria upholds regional solidarity and African leadership in resolving these challenges, reinforced by principled international partnerships.
Chad · Abdelmadjid Abdelrahim Mahamat · Day 4 · 5 sentences
- Chad reiterates to this end its complete support for the common African position, as stipulated in the Ezulwini Consensus and the Sirt Declaration, and taken up in the African model for reform of the Security Council, presented in April by Sierra Leone on behalf of the Committee of Ten of the African Union.
- We will continue to strengthen our national courts and support credible, independent and effective African mechanisms that can protect victims and prosecute the perpetrators of the most serious crimes.
- In the Central African Republic, Chad has discreetly and consistently striven for mediation.
- This led on the 19th of April 2025 to the signature of a ceasefire agreement between the Central African Republic government and two of the main armed groups of the country.
Central African Republic · Faustin Archange Touadera · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- Distinguished President of the General Assembly, distinguished Secretary-General, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I take the floor on behalf of the Central African Republic with a full sense of responsibility bestowed by this podium and the pride of a people that has never given up hope.
- The African position, represented for years now by the Ezulwini Consensus and the Cirt Declaration, is not a favor we're asking.
- We support strengthening the UN-African Union partnership, including through predictable financing for African-led operations.
- The African Union has prioritized this, and the CEAR fully supports these efforts.
Ethiopia · Taye Atske-Selassie Amde · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- With genuine political goodwill, how can a world with the right conscience justify the denial of 1.6 billion Africans the right to equal representation?
- As one of the powerhouse of clean energy with a total potential of 60,000 megawatts, Ethiopia targets to generate 13,000 megawatts by 2030, aiming also to scale up our energy supply across East African power pool and beyond.
- In this regard, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam stands as a monumental Pan-African clean energy project, providing that our shared waters and resources can generate progress and development for collective regional prosperity.
- This project will play a catalytic role in the African Continental Free Trade Area.
Namibia · Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- The common African position as articulated in the Ezulwini Consensus and the SALT Declaration has also been reaffirmed in the Pact for the Future, which recognizes Africa as a special case.
- In this context, We welcome the creation of the African Credit Rating Agency to be launched in Mauritius in October this year.
- In our capacity as co-chair with Senegal of the AU International High-Level Panel on the African Water Investment Programme, on Monday, we convened a high-level side event on water investment for Africa and the globe.
- Mr. President, The adoption of the United Nations resolution on the transatlantic slave trade in March 2026 is the beginning of a journey, a journey towards truth, acknowledgement, healing, and justice for millions of Africans and people of African descent whose lives were forever changed by slavery, colonialism, and other historical injustice.
Gambia (Republic of The) · Mohammed Jallow · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- At that critical moment, the preventive diplomacy of the United Nations, working in partnership with the African Union and ECOWAS, help uphold the will of the Gambian people and support a peaceful democratic transition.
- Partnerships between the United Nations and regional organizations, particularly the African Union, must also be deepened with sustained and predictable funding.
- The Gambia commends Ghana for its historic resolution on declaration of trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity and to go for the resolution on correcting the map at the General Assembly.
- The real initiatives of Moroccan autonomy, the Moroccan-Nigeria gas pipeline, the Atlantic African initiative, amongst others, have provided realistic pathways to finding a lasting political solution to the dispute over the Moroccan Sahara by giving people the development, human rights, security, and stability they need.
Côte d’Ivoire · Tiémoko Meyliet Koné · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- And to lend its full support for the many mediation efforts undertaken by the United Nations, the African Union, and relevant regional organizations.
- Due to a lack of support from certain partners and from the United Nations, several African countries are struggling to find lasting solutions to conflicts and to bear the cost of various counterterrorism and peacekeeping operations.
- In this regard, we commend the efforts of the United Nations, the African Union, ECOWAS, and all the partners working on security and stabilization efforts in our region.
- This ambition is now embodied in Cote d'Ivoire's National Development Plan 2026-2030, which is part of a long-term vision aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the African Union's Agenda 2063.
Togo · Robert Komlan Edo Dussey · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- In the Great Lakes region, Togo, as part of African mediation, is also making its contribution to de-escalation, to restoring trust, and to the quest for lasting responses to disputes.
- In our West African sub-region and at the African level, Togo is working unfailingly to promote mediation, stability and the peaceful settlement of disputes.
- For us, As African, the adoption of this resolution is far more than a cartographic decision.
- We want African cartographers to contribute We want European cartographers to contribute.
Tunisia · Mohamed Ali Nafti · Day 5 · 4 sentences
- In this regard, Tunisia reaffirms its commitment to the principle of African solutions to African problems, thereby strengthening the ownership of African countries and peoples over the resolution of their crises and reinforcing the role of African mechanisms and institutions in maintaining peace and security.
- Tunisia renews its support for the reform of the African Union so that it may better fulfill its responsibilities and respond effectively to current challenges.
- Tunisia also stresses the importance of strengthening the partnership between the United Nations and the African Union in conflict prevention, mediation, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, and sustainable development.
- Tunisia also reiterates its commitment to strengthen economic integration across the continent, particularly within the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, COMESA, and the African Continental Free Trade Area.
Zambia · Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe · Day 5 · 4 sentences
- According to demographic forecasts, one in every four youths on the globe will be African by 2050.
- We have a wealth of young Africans with potential to become entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers, farmers, innovators, and artists, and indeed, future leaders.
- Zambia therefore supports meaningful UN reform, particularly of the Security Council, including permanent African representation in line with the Ezulini Consensus and the Certe Declaration.
- We further support African-led solutions and stronger cooperation between the UN, the African Union and regional organizations to advance conflict prevention, peace building and collective security.
Cameroon · Lejeune Mbella Mbella · Day 5 · 4 sentences
- Cameroon also has the intention of contributing to the full expansion of the African Continental Free Trade Area, the acronym being AfCFTA.
- in order to strengthen development and trade cooperation among African countries.
- Moreover, my country reiterates its solidarity when it comes to the African Union's common position for better representation of the African continent in the United Nations Security Council.
- My country also has the intention of continuing to participate in peacekeeping operations led by the United Nations, as well as training and building capacities of African staff that serve in these operations.
Benin · Marc Hermanne Gninadoou Araba · Day 6 · 4 sentences
- Benin would like to reaffirm its unswerving support for the common African position set forth in the Izolwini Consensus and the Siet Declaration.
- interstate solidarity, regional cooperation, the action of the African Union, the support of the United Nations.
- We want to give all those who wish to do so the opportunity to rekindle their ties with African history, an opportunity to rebuild a thriving bond with the continent.
- It is with this in mind that Benin intends to reconnect with peoples of African descent.
United Republic of Tanzania · Deogratius Ndejembi · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- It is in this spirit that Her Excellency President Samia Suluhu Hassan accepted the responsibility of championing maternal and child health for the African Union.
- Excellencies, Building on this record and sustained commitment to multilateralism, I am pleased to inform you that recently, the African Union formally took note of Tanzania's candidacy for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for the term 2029-2030 during elections to be held by this Assembly in June 2028.
- In the coming days, we will engage with each one of you and present our vision and respectfully seek your valued support to enable Tanzania to serve with a strong African voice, principled leadership, and unwavering commitment to international peace and security.
Botswana · Duma Gideon Boko · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- Botswana has sought to live by this principle as a host to the Southern African Development Community, SADC, secretariat through our contributions to regional mediation and election observation, and through our consistent commitment to the peaceful settlement of disputes.
- We achieved the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets ahead of schedule, and we became the first African country to achieve World Health Organization silver tier status for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
- In this regard, Botswana reaffirms its support for comprehensive Security Council reform and aligns itself with a common African position as articulated in the Ezulwini Consensus and the Sirte Declaration.
Zimbabwe · Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- In the African tradition, the meeting place is not where courage is abandoned, it is where wisdom is summoned.
- Secondly, We shall advocate for the strengthening of cooperation between the United Nations and the regional organizations, such as the African Union and its Peace and Security Council.
- In this respect, we call for the full implementation of Resolution 2719 to ensure predictable, adequate, and sustainable financing for authorized African Union-led peace support operations.
Equatorial Guinea · Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue · Day 3 · 3 sentences
Saint Lucia · Philip J. Pierre · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- On 25 March 2026, the General Assembly approved one of its most historic and consequential resolutions that declared the trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans as the greatest crime against humanity.
- This resolution and the subsequent establishment of the High-Level Global Advisory Council on Reparatory Justice is a very significant step in the search for reparations for the transatlantic slave trade and the enslavement of Africans in the Americas and the Caribbean.
- Saint Lucia congratulates the government of Jamaica on a successful petition to the British monarch for him to refer three questions to the judicial committee of the Privy Council over the legality of the enslavement of Africans in Jamaica.
Gabon · Marie-Édith Tassyla-Ye-Doumbeneny · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- Mr. President, Gabon, in its capacity as member of the African Union's Peace and Security Council, stresses the urgent need to implement UN Security Council Resolution 2719 on the financing of peacekeeping operations.
- Gabon therefore welcomes the adoption of UN General Assembly resolution 80/250 on the African slave trade, characterizing it as the gravest crime against humanity.
- For Gabon, there can be no legitimate global governance without equitable African participation in decisions concerning international peace and security.
Türkiye · Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Poland · Karol Nawrocki · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Mozambique · Daniel Francisco Chapo · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- Natural resources should contribute to the economic diversification of our economy, the mobilization of income and investment in our biggest asset, which is the talent of the Mozambican people and the talent of the African people.
- We therefore reaffirm the common African position related to the reform of the United Nations Security Council based on the Ezulwini Consensus and the Sirte Declaration, under which no fewer than two permanent seats with all prerogatives and privileges, including the veto, as long as it exists, and five non-permanent seats are allocated to Africa.
Uganda · Jessica Rose Epel Alupo · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- In this regard, we demand Africa's rightful representation in both the permanent and non-permanent categories to correct historical imbalances in line with the common African position articulated in the Eswatini Consensus and the Sauti Declaration.
- And our security approach is rooted in a Pan-African framework that seeks peace through collective alliances and regional cooperation.
Madagascar · Michaël Randrianirina · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- 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.
- Mr. President, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, this platform, speaking here at this rostrum, also gives me the opportunity to express our gratitude to all our partners for the trust and support that they have provided and for the fraternal support of the Southern African Development Community, SADC, and the United Nations, standing with us hand in hand since the beginning of the refoundation process.
Comoros · Azali Assoumani · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Liberia · Joseph Nyuma Boakai · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Senegal · Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Barbados · Mia Amor Mottley · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- Mr. President, exactly 65 years ago, that great Caribbean, French, African intellectual and psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon, published what has now become a classic, "The Wretched of the Earth."
- The trafficking of enslaved African and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans is the gravest crime against humanity.
Lesotho · Samuel Ntsokoane Matekane · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- With the support of the United Nations, the African Union, SADC, and other friendly nations, we have reclaimed our rightful place among the community of nations as a stable and peaceful country.
- Mr. President, as we contemplate the future of community of nations, we must renew our collective commitment to a United Nations that is more inclusive, effective, and responsive to modern times global challenges, and one in which developing countries, particularly African nations, have a stronger voice in global decision making.
Niger · Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- along the African continent, the longest one in the African continent, making Niger one of the continent's fastest growing economies in 2025.
- It is standing tall because within the Confederation of Sahel States, it has found a family, solidarity, and a family in the full African meaning of the term.
Guinea-Bissau · Ilídio Vieira Té · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- The reform of the United Nations Security Council must reflect the legitimate aspirations of the African continent and ensure fairer, permanent, and effective representation in keeping with the principle of a more inclusive, equitable, and representative international order.
- I take this opportunity to express our gratitude to the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, the African Union, the United Nations, and our other international partners for their engagement and support in the efforts to ensure a return to constitutional normalcy in our country.
Egypt · Moustafa Kamal Madbouly · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- Arab and African languages and communities should receive fair representation in data and models.
- Drawing upon its Arab, African, and Mediterranean heritage, its historic role in founding the multilateral international order and its principled commitment to its survival and sustainability, Egypt will remain a bridge for cooperation and a partner to all those who seek a more just and effective international system.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Godwin Friday · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- The Caribbean community has for over a decade advanced a ten-point plan for reparatory justice, seeking acknowledgement, repair, and genuine partnership to address the historic injustices of the enslavement of African people and the near annihilation of our indigenous populations.
- We are encouraged that in March 2026, this Assembly strongly adopted a resolution sponsored by Ghana and supported by the African Union and CARICOM, declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity.
Saint Kitts and Nevis · Geoffrey Hanley · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- At the second African Caribbean Summit, our leaders signed the Addis Ababa Declaration And this year, the African Union's Reparation Mechanism and the Caribbean Reparations Commission held their first joint meeting, establishing permanent coordination.
- On March 25, 2026, this General Assembly adopted Resolution 80/250 declaring that trafficking of enslaved African and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity.
Mauritania · Mohamed Salem Merzoug · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- Mr. President, Mauritania adopts a balanced approach that covers all our inheritances, be it African, Islamic, Arab and others.
- Turning to Libya, we support the UN efforts and the African Union's effort to reach a permanent settlement that would maintain the country's unity and sovereignty while ensuring peace and stability to the people of Libya.
Mauritius · Dhananjay Ramful · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- Mauritius fully supports the common African position the Ezulwini Consensus and the Sertic Declaration, calling for no fewer than two permanent and five non-permanent African seats on the Council.
- We welcome the high-level meeting on this subject and reaffirm our commitment to the international decade for people of African descent.
Cabo Verde · Francisco Avelino Vieira de Carvalho · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- Therefore, we support a more equitable African representation in accordance with the Ezewini consensus and the CIRT declaration.
- The 2030 agenda, the African Union's Agenda 2063, and the Pact for the Future point us in one clear direction, sustainable development centered on the people capable of transforming global commitments into concrete changes in the lives of populations.
Belarus · Maxim Ryzhenkov · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- And in line with this, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution in March of this year declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity.
- That is why we wholeheartedly and with fraternal feeling support those who demand historical justice, including on the issue of reparations raised by the African Union.
Djibouti · Abdoulkader Houssein Omar · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Mali · Abdoulaye Diop · Day 6 · 2 sentences
South Sudan · Cecilia Adout Majok Adeng · Day 6 · 2 sentences
Secretary-General of the United Nations · António Guterres · Day 1 · 1 sentence
President of the General Assembly (opening) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Brazil · Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva · Day 1 · 1 sentence
United States of America · Donald Trump · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Kyrgyzstan · Sadyr Zhaparov · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Finland · Alexander Stubb · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Suriname · Jennifer Geerlings-Simons · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Japan · Takaichi Sanae · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Romania · Nicuşor-Daniel Dan · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Serbia · Aleksandar Vučić · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Rwanda · Justin Nsengiyumva · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) · Rob Jetten · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Ireland · Micheál Martin · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Bahamas (the) · Philip Edward Davis · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Azerbaijan · Jeyhun Aziz oglu Bayramov · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Mexico · Roberto Velasco Álvarez · Day 4 · 1 sentence
China · Han Zheng · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Russian Federation · Sergey Lavrov · Day 5 · 1 sentence
India · Subrahmanyam Jaishankar · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Canada · Anita Anand · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Sao Tome and Principe · Ilza Maria dos Santos Amado Vaz · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Eritrea · Osman Saleh Mohammed · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Burkina Faso · Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Malawi · George Chapatula Chaponda · Day 6 · 1 sentence
United Arab Emirates · Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Antigua and Barbuda · Walton Alfonso Webson · Day 6 · 1 sentence
President of the General Assembly (closing) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 6 · 1 sentence