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🇳🇿New Zealand · Victoria Louise Hallum · Day 6 · 9 sentences

• The Secretary-General should never have to ask permission or forgiveness for acting to prevent or resolve conflict. 4:05:40Copy
• So we ask you to be active in seeking an end to the horrific conflict in Sudan. 4:06:09Copy
• We ask that you use your influence to progress a fragile ceasefire into a sustainable, durable peace. 4:06:41Copy
• We ask the next Secretary-General to work with us to preserve the integrity of the global disarmament framework, particularly on weapons of mass destruction. 4:09:18Copy

🇫🇯Fiji · Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati Lalabalavu · Day 3 · 7 sentences

• When the world asks small states to choose between competing power blocks, Fiji chooses principles. 6:36:51Copy
• OAU and Fiji ask the same of every party in every theater. 6:37:35Copy
• We ask only that they be properly mandated, properly financed, and properly supported. 6:38:06Copy
• I thank all those who have come forward, and I ask those who are able to close the gap to do so willingly. 6:40:45Copy

🇨🇴Colombia · José Manuel Restrepo · Day 3 · 5 sentences

• There was no time to ask whether we were ready. 4:55:35Copy
• A rural farmer having to ask permission from a terrorist group to work on his land. 4:58:26Copy
• We also need to ask ourselves, how are we going to produce more? 5:00:51Copy
• I believe in the UN as an organization and it is precisely for that reason that I believe it's legitimate to ask whether the institutions that we've been building are effectively responding to the problems that that it was created to address. 5:05:13Copy

🇾🇪Yemen · Abdullah Abdulkader Al Alimi-Bawzer · Day 3 · 5 sentences

• We do not ask the world to mourn every Yemeni child whose future has been stolen. 7:29:31Copy
• Rather, we ask how many more children must be deprived of their future before the world stands resolutely with the Yemeni people and their struggle to restore their state and their stability. 7:29:38Copy
• The Yemeni people do not ask the world to fight their battle on their behalf. 7:43:39Copy
• What we ask? 7:43:52Copy

🇰🇪Kenya · William Samoei Ruto · Day 2 · 4 sentences

• It did not ask the United Nations merely to describe war or count victims or organize relief after diplomacy has failed. 7:53:58Copy
• They ask the same fundamental question, whether the institutions that govern our common future will reflect the sovereign equality they proclaim or preserve inequalities inherited from another age. 8:14:45Copy
• We need not recreate the debates of another era, but we must ask the question they left unfinished. 8:15:15Copy
• We must not ask our children to inherit wars that we can prevent, or debts that we can make sustainable, inequalities we can correct, and institutions we know no longer reflect the world we live in. 8:17:33Copy

🇪🇸Spain · Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón · Day 2 · 4 sentences

• These men and women laid down their wisdom and their hope in this Charter, and they didn't ask us to keep it in a glass case. 11:15:26Copy
• They will study this decisive decade and they will ask us what role each and every one of us played. 11:23:42Copy
• They will ask us what did we do when some countries started to break the rules and others decided to look the other way? 11:23:48Copy
• They will ask us what we did when defending what we believed in started to cost us dearly. 11:23:57Copy

🇮🇱Israel · Benjamin Netanyahu · Day 3 · 4 sentences

• You ask, why are we winning? 5:37:33Copy
• I want to ask you some questions. 5:42:49Copy
• And I ask them, what will this future, what will this behavior, what will the world hold for you? 5:49:00Copy
• To the protesters outside, to the hypocritical delegates who left this hall, I ask Where were you when the Iranian tyrants butchered and maimed tens of thousands of unarmed Iranian civilians? 5:51:19Copy

🇧🇧Barbados · Mia Amor Mottley · Day 3 · 4 sentences

• We cannot continue to ask international organizations to do more. 8:16:28Copy
• Our commitment to multilateralism, to an international rules-based order, must be measured not only by what we ask of these institutions, but by our willingness to support them. 8:17:01Copy
• And you may well ask, how have we gotten here? 8:21:41Copy
• We do not ask for reparations without accepting responsibility for our own self-repair which we have undertaken for decades. 8:39:21Copy

🇸🇮Slovenia · Janez Janša · Day 3 · 4 sentences

• So, we must ask, if every civilian life matters, why does our urgency seem so different from one crisis to another? 10:14:44Copy
• We must also be willing to ask difficult questions about how Palestine is discussed and used politically. 10:15:08Copy
• We want to speak credibly of the United Nations that delivers for all, and we must be prepared to ask a difficult question: Does it really deliver for all? 10:24:23Copy
• United Nations that cannot uphold its own principles has no standing to ask the world for its trust. 10:25:35Copy

🇳🇵Nepal · Balendra Shah · Day 3 · 4 sentences

• It was a warning to the world, and I ask you today, have we really heard that warning? 11:29:38Copy
• We are here to ask everyone to recommit to shared responsibility and solidarity. 11:32:59Copy
• When the house is burning, we do not ask family to complete 50 forms. 11:36:04Copy
• Ask Bangladesh, ask Bhutan, ask India, ask the Maldives, ask Pakistan, ask Sri Lanka, ask any other country in our region, and you'll hear the same account. 11:38:19Copy

🇲🇻Maldives · Hussain Mohamed Latheef · Day 4 · 4 sentences

• Every member state must ask, what have we done to end this violence? 47:41Copy
• The United Nations must ask itself the same question. 47:47Copy
• When we act on conflict, climate, finance, technology, or institutional reform, let us ask, Does this decision expand a status freedom tools? 58:50Copy
• Today, we ask it to protect something just as fundamental: every state's freedom to choose its own future. 59:45Copy

🇧🇸Bahamas (the) · Philip Edward Davis · Day 4 · 4 sentences

• Mr. President, a sovereignty that must ask permission is not sovereignty. 6:27:12Copy
• Narrow self-interest ask what you can take today. 6:32:11Copy
• Enlightened self-interest ask what kind of world you will have to live in. 6:32:16Copy
• That is why the Bahamas ask you to support the nomination of Stephen Barrow for Deputy Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union. 6:38:20Copy

🇱🇺Luxembourg · Guillaume of Luxembourg · Day 1 · 3 sentences

• Therefore, it is incumbent upon us to ask ourselves if we're really preparing a future that is going to earn their trust. 5:25:55Copy
• We should also listen to young people, ask them what we can build working hand in hand. 5:28:03Copy
• I believe this is ultimately what the United Nations asks of us. 5:35:43Copy

🇸🇱Sierra Leone · Julius Maada Bio · Day 1 · 3 sentences

• The words for all ask not only whether United Nations can act, but also its actions, where they reach. 7:40:33Copy
• Mr. President, Sierra Leone does not ask the world what it does not demand of itself. 7:52:49Copy
• What remains is the will of the organization to live by the equality it asks of others and entrust a woman with its highest office. 7:56:57Copy

🇧🇪Belgium · Maxime Prévot · Day 1 · 3 sentences

• When funding runs out, what do we tell the mother who asks war for hours to reach a clinic with a sick child that the doors are closed? 11:47:02Copy
• We cannot ask humanitarian workers to give those answers because we have chosen to cut their funding. 11:47:23Copy
• We cannot ask more of it, steadily strip away its resources, and then express surprise when it's not effective enough. 12:04:21Copy

🇷🇸Serbia · Aleksandar Vučić · Day 2 · 3 sentences

• And when they raise their voices, thinking that they are being highly moral and that their positions are the only right ones, we simply smile and ask ourselves: And how did you treat Kosovo and Metohija and the territorial integrity of Serbia, which is guaranteed by the UN Charter and the resolution of the UNSC 1244? 8:29:38Copy
• When we ask them, do you also say to Ukraine that the territories they are fighting for are not important? 8:30:08Copy
• We must therefore ask the essential question, where is the United Nations in such a world? 8:35:30Copy

🇧🇴Bolivia (Plurinational State of) · Rodrigo Paz Pereira · Day 3 · 3 sentences

• Bolivia cannot ask the world to protect our forests if we don't do our fair share as well. 3:28:59Copy
• to finance myself, I had to ask multilaterals, I have to ask for resources that come late or sometimes never because the slow procedures that those multilateral organizations have mean that organized crime has an advantage when it comes to getting resources from drug trafficking, drug terrorism or the smuggling of gold to then destabilize our democracies. 3:29:53Copy
• And that same technique of peace, which I ask countries at war to use to end confrontations. 3:31:03Copy

🇱🇧Lebanon · Nawaf Salam · Day 4 · 3 sentences

• Our aim in pursuing reform is not to ask our people to renew their trust in the state. 1:30:45Copy
• Mr. President, the Lebanon that stands before you today does not shirk its responsibilities, nor does it ask others to do what It is duty-bound to do itself. 1:37:32Copy
• But we are entitled to ask the international community to shoulder, in turn, its responsibility to ensure respect for Lebanon's sovereignty and the implementation of resolutions of international legitimacy. 1:37:54Copy

🇲🇰North Macedonia · Hristijan Mickoski · Day 4 · 3 sentences

• If we ask citizens to trust institutions, then institutions must demonstrate that their worth has value and that their commitments endure. 3:40:21Copy
• We ask our citizens to believe in cooperation, in good neighborly relations, in compromises, and in mutual respect. 3:40:50Copy
• To sustain trust in institutions, not by asking people to look less closely and ask fewer questions, but by making institutions more worthy of their trust. 3:45:53Copy

🇵🇬Papua New Guinea · James Marape · Day 4 · 3 sentences

• We cannot ask the world to respect our beliefs while refusing to respect the freedom of conscience of another human being. 5:41:55Copy
• Papua New Guinea respectfully asks leaders of the world's major powers to remember the ordinary people whose lives can be affected by decisions made far away from them. 5:45:56Copy
• And I want to ask every one of us, let's respect human rights of every citizens of this planet. 5:51:42Copy

🇳🇷Naoero · David Ranibok Adeang · Day 1 · 2 sentences

• What I ask of the world costs nothing, Join us in recognizing and respecting the identity that is already ours. 9:14:15Copy
• And I ask this Assembly to reckon with this. 9:17:40Copy

🇧🇹Bhutan · Tshering Tobgay · Day 1 · 2 sentences

• Now you may reasonably ask, it sounds wonderful, but is it real? 10:12:54Copy
• It does not reject economic growth, but it does ask the essential question, what is growth for? 10:16:44Copy

🇪🇨Ecuador · Daniel Roy-Gilchrist Noboa Azin · Day 2 · 2 sentences

• We ask that access to cooperation and financing be defined using more fair vulnerability criteria and that the international financial architecture support the efforts of those who are undertaking reforms. 5:02:04Copy
• It's a region that has not come to this assembly to ask for solutions from the outside, but rather to offer up our solutions and one with the greatest. 5:03:25Copy

🇸🇧Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 2 sentences

• First, let us ask for wisdom before we ask for advantage. 4:22:08Copy
• When Solomon was offered anything he wished, he did not ask for riches or long life or the defeat of his enemies. 4:22:13Copy

🇳🇪Niger · Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman · Day 4 · 2 sentences

• In this regard, We ask that any concern a member state may have about their security be examined with haste and impartiality without differentiated treatment. 6:13:22Copy
• We ask everyone to respect those choices. 6:22:35Copy

🇸🇬Singapore · Vivian Balakrishnan · Day 5 · 2 sentences

• And I would ask all of you to recollect the BBNJ Agreement, which entered into force this year. 4:22:04Copy
• We now ask for the chance to serve the cause of the rule of law. 4:34:26Copy

🇯🇲Jamaica · Kamina Johnson Smith · Day 5 · 2 sentences

• We do not ask to be relieved of responsibility. 8:05:46Copy
• We ask for an international system that gives responsible countries the space and support to succeed. 8:05:49Copy

🇸🇻El Salvador · Alexandra Hill Tinoco · Day 6 · 2 sentences

• And this is why I want to ask all of us here at this assembly very seriously, with a strong sense of conviction, whether today we have an organization that is still relevant with a conviction to deal with the challenges that our humanity is dealing with. 1:51:44Copy
• Today, we must ask a vital question for the present and future of our nations, and that is, what world do we want to build to ensure that nobody dies, that no innocent person has to suffer, so that the whole of humanity regardless of their country, their origin, their social condition, is able to prosper. 2:08:35Copy

🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda · Walton Alfonso Webson · Day 6 · 2 sentences

• Mister President, we meet once again at a moment when history asks difficult questions of this institution. 4:37:30Copy
• It must also ask how much development can they achieve. 4:56:59Copy

🇻🇺Vanuatu · Odo Tevi · Day 6 · 2 sentences

• The Pacific does not ask the world to prevent El Nino. 6:23:46Copy
• We ask the world to help us to prepare for it, withstand its impacts, and recover with dignity. 6:23:51Copy

🇯🇴Jordan · Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• It no longer feels compelled to ask, "Can we get away with this?" It already knows the answer. 2:45:25Copy

🇰🇷Republic of Korea · Lee Jae Myung · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• These words of the second Secretary-General of the UN, Dag Hammarskjold, compel us to ask ourselves: Is the United Nations today capable of saving humanity from war, poverty, and disaster? 7:03:42Copy

🇩🇲Dominica · Sylvanie Burton · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• A fundamental question that one must ask is, can the international system still deliver? 8:20:52Copy

🇸🇾Syrian Arab Republic · Ahmad Al-Sharaa · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• This resolution is clear, and I ask our partners to abide by international law and by this resolution. 23:25Copy

🇵🇾Paraguay · Santiago Peña Palacios · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• So I ask you today, respectfully but firmly, how can we have a United Nations for all when it is led by a Security Council of the few? 1:55:37Copy

🇦🇷Argentina · Javier Gerardo Milei · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• That is why I wish to ask a question. 2:24:45Copy

🇨🇾Cyprus · Nikos Christodoulides · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• If we ask states to believe in multilateralism, if we expect them to be active contributors then they must be able to trust that the principles and decisions of our institutions will be upheld without exception. 4:18:45Copy

🇵🇦Panama · José Raúl Mulino Quintero · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• And I ask all of you to support us in this initiative. 6:17:37Copy

🇪🇹Ethiopia · Taye Atske-Selassie Amde · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• With regard to the digital revolution and artificial intelligence, Africa is compelled to ask a very defining question. 6:33:19Copy

🇸🇰Slovakia · Peter Pellegrini · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• But let's ask ourselves a simple question. 7:41:25Copy

🇻🇪Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) · Delcy Eloína Rodríguez Gómez · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• And here, I ask for the support of the international community so that it in good faith supports the changes that Venezuela requires. 10:40:11Copy

🇦🇩Andorra · Xavier Espot Zamora · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• Yet it also compels us to ask a question that no previous generation has had to face with such urgency: How can we ensure that technological progress remains human progress? 11:35:24Copy

🇨🇩Democratic Republic of the Congo · Judith Suminwa Tuluka · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• This faith, however, calls upon us to be clear-eyed about the world's transformations and to ask about the ability of the UN to evolve alongside it for our peoples. 11:45:21Copy

🇮🇹Italy · Antonio Tajani · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• Gulf must relaunch dialogue and ask Iran to abandon any form of nuclear threat and any aggressive policy towards other countries in the region. 12:21:14Copy

🇬🇭Ghana · John Dramani Mahama · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• It asks God to make us bold, to defend forever the cause of freedom and of right. 1:01:32Copy

🇵🇸Palestine (State of) · Mahmoud Abbas · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• Once again, I ask before this assembly How much longer will some states continue to remain silent on Israel or supply it with the weapons that it uses against our people? 1:35:09Copy

🇸🇴Somalia · Hassan Sheikh Mohamud · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• We must also ask ourselves why we continue to mobilize vital sources to respond to crisis while investing far less in preventing them. 2:29:55Copy

🇭🇺Hungary · András Bálint Baka · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• We must give these issues to the same serious attention that we ask others to give European security. 3:44:01Copy

🇺🇾Uruguay · Yamandú Orsi · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• While we discuss growth, technology, artificial intelligence, the energy transition or new forms of production, there are millions of people who continue to ask themselves far more basic questions. 3:54:29Copy

🇬🇲Gambia (Republic of The) · Mohammed Jallow · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• Eight decades later, we must ask ourselves whether we have remained faithful to that insight. 4:32:22Copy

🇦🇹Austria · Beate Meinl-Reisinger · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• So let me ask you a simple question that I believe sits underneath everything we are discussing this week. 11:43:19Copy

🇲🇭Marshall Islands · Hilda Heine · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• Mr. President, Mr. Secretary-General, Excellencies, I ask every nation here, are we still willing to work together? 2:00:58Copy

🇦🇱Albania · Edi Rama · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• We must also ask what did the human being learned? 4:47:41Copy

🇭🇹Haiti · Alix Didier Fils-Aimé · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• Mr. President, I am bringing to you the voice of Haiti, but also the voice of those peoples who our world too often asks to bear the weight of crises that they did not create. 6:52:11Copy

🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Godwin Friday · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• As I conclude, Mr. President, we ask how the United Nations can restore trust while managing transformation. 8:21:04Copy

🇹🇴Tonga · Lord Fakafanua · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• We will simply ask that others do this. 8:40:23Copy

🇰🇳Saint Kitts and Nevis · Geoffrey Hanley · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• But we must ask who will shape this new age and who will live with decisions made elsewhere. 9:12:04Copy

🇲🇺Mauritius · Dhananjay Ramful · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• As we look to the next 80 years, we must ask ourselves a searching question. 11:07:11Copy

🇳🇴Norway · Espen Barth Eide · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• But those who care about the UN must ask: are we improving delivery, or just creating more fragmentation and duplication? 11:47:44Copy

🇹🇬Togo · Robert Komlan Edo Dussey · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• Mr. President, the topic of this section asks us to do two things: to be clear in our diagnosis and to be strong in our commitment. 12:31:05Copy

🇮🇳India · · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• Ask the people of Rawalpindi about the wanton killings, the brutal violence, and the denial of basic rights that they have long experienced. 12:53:24Copy

🇧🇿Belize · John Briceño · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• As we ask this assembly and its next leadership to meet the same standard, let the smallest voice be heard as clearly as the largest. 1:15:24Copy

🇲🇩Republic of Moldova · Vasile Tofan · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• But I want to ask something important of you. 1:36:13Copy

🇵🇭Philippines · Ma. Theresa Lazaro · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• Today, we must ask, have we honored that sacred compact? 2:38:19Copy

🇮🇳India · Subrahmanyam Jaishankar · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• Mr. President, given the state of the world, each member of the UN must ask themselves what they can do. 4:49:21Copy

🇩🇪Germany · Johann Wadephul · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• When a technology has the power to fundamentally change the world, possibly even determine the fate of humanity, we need to ask who controls it, who sets the rules, who is accountable. 4:59:18Copy

🇧🇾Belarus · Maxim Ryzhenkov · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• Nevertheless, in the West, they are already beginning to ask questions about their many, they're now being held to account for centuries of colonial plunder for the destruction of cultures, traditions and identifies of enslaved peoples and for the slave trade, which claimed millions of lives. 5:19:21Copy

🇹🇳Tunisia · Mohamed Ali Nafti · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• This prompts us to ask, how can we restore this trust? 5:51:50Copy

🇲🇾Malaysia · Mohamad Haji Hasan · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• We must therefore ask simple question, who governs the transformation? 7:06:19Copy

🇩🇿Algeria · Ahmed Attaf · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• We cannot ask peoples to trust in multilateralism if its institutions continue to reflect the balances of a bygone era. 1:26:29Copy

🇸🇸South Sudan · Cecilia Adout Majok Adeng · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• Do not ask only what South Sudan needs, ask what South Sudan can offer. 5:37:58Copy

🇹🇭Thailand · · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• We must therefore ask, when will Cambodia break free from this vicious cycle, move forward, and join us in opening a new chapter in our relations? 7:18:35Copy

🇸🇩Sudan · · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• We ask the UAE to work on their own political regimes so that they are more representative of their people instead of being a familial government, governing regime headed by military officials. 7:25:32Copy