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🇵🇸Palestine (State of) · Mahmoud Abbas · Day 3 · 7 sentences

• In the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, settler expansion is accelerating. 1:32:41Copy
• The West Bank is being fragmented and Jerusalem is being isolated and Judaized. 1:32:49Copy
• What is taking place in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem are not isolated incidents. 1:34:13Copy
• The world has witnessed the tremendous cost in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. 1:35:27Copy

🇯🇴Jordan · Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein · Day 1 · 5 sentences

• And while the world has been focused on Gaza, something extraordinarily dangerous is unfolding in the West Bank. 2:37:25Copy
• And Israel is tightening its grip on more of the West Bank, seizing land, expanding settlements, and pushing the Palestinians out. 2:38:15Copy
• What is unfolding across the West Bank is not a series of isolated acts. 2:40:35Copy
• The first is that Gaza and the West Bank are separate stories. 2:41:15Copy

🇸🇪Sweden · Maria Malmer Stenergard · Day 4 · 5 sentences

• A job at a local bank gave her not only an income, but also independence and confidence. 12:15:46Copy
• There at the bank, she met many women with little to no experience with finances and who were left vulnerable when circumstances changed. 12:15:53Copy
• coming to the bank in tears because they didn't know anything about their own family finances. 12:16:10Copy
• One woman came to the bank holding two safe deposit keys without knowing which bank they belonged to. 12:16:17Copy

🇫🇷France · Emmanuel Macron · Day 1 · 4 sentences

• Look, just look at, look at what's happening in the West Bank, where day in, day out, we are seeing violations. 5:53:08Copy
• Hamas was never reactive in the West Bank. 5:53:21Copy
• We need to go faster and go further to help the IMF and the World Bank to be more effective. 5:57:03Copy
• Some of these technological developments might attack the security of our states, our hospitals, our banks. 6:03:10Copy

🇦🇪United Arab Emirates · Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar · Day 6 · 3 sentences

• We also underscore the importance of ensuring the unification of Gaza and the West Bank under a Palestinian authority that, once reformed, will be capable to fulfill its responsibilities and ensure that arms remain solely under its control. 3:35:14Copy
• We further underscore the urgent need to halt Israel's dangerous escalation in the West Bank and its settlement activities, accompanied by the rise of settler violence, terrorism, and the siege of Palestinian village, as well as the ongoing in East Jerusalem and at the holy sites, and the attempts to impose a new historical and legal status quo on the ground. 3:35:29Copy
• Today, that commitment continues through our role as the largest provider of humanitarian aid to Gaza, along with our humanitarian and development projects in the West Bank. 3:36:00Copy

🇺🇳Secretary-General of the United Nations · António Guterres · Day 1 · 2 sentences

• Meanwhile, violence, displacement, and settlement expansion by Israel in the occupied West Bank are bulldozing the path to peace and raising the specter of ethnic cleansing. 33:05Copy
• For multilateral development banks that are bigger, bolder, and better equipped to provide affordable, long-term finance at scale. 38:51Copy

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

• The Asian Development Bank, ADB, weighs vulnerability alongside income, and its own policy names my nation as the clearest example of why income alone conceals what small island states face. 9:21:31Copy
• I therefore urge all who have yet to do so, including the World Bank, to weigh vulnerability alongside income in decisions on eligibility, as the ADB already does. 9:22:03Copy

🇬🇧United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Andy Burnham · Day 1 · 2 sentences

• But this does not justify the Israeli Government's actions in Gaza or the West Bank. 11:16:16Copy
• Last month, Israel issued tenders for the construction of the E1 mega settlement, which would drive a wedge through the West Bank and threaten to put a viable Palestinian state beyond reach. 11:16:44Copy

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

• The UN Charter envisaged multilateral development banks that lend more, lend longer, and mobilize private capital at scale. 8:05:44Copy
• And that is what we intend to do, including the more than $4 trillion in domestic capital across pension funds, insurance assets, sovereign wealth funds, banks, and other institutions in Africa. 8:10:00Copy

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

• We commend the commitment of Angola, Zambia, the USA, the European Union, the African Development Bank, financial institutions, and the private sector. 12:01:05Copy
• The Cevia commitment must now translate into better access to concessional financing, greater mobilization of lateral development banks, and debt relief mechanisms that protect our state's ability to invest. 12:08:50Copy

🇧🇧Barbados · Mia Amor Mottley · Day 3 · 2 sentences

• And whether it is in Gaza or the West Bank or Lebanon or Yemen or Sudan or Ukraine or elsewhere. 8:20:12Copy
• The CVF also had its governors of the Central Bank meet to establish the Lifeline Fund which was shortly be operationalized. 8:31:59Copy

🇮🇪Ireland · Micheál Martin · Day 3 · 2 sentences

• More of us have taken steps to push back against the illegal and violent settler occupation of Palestinian land in the West Bank. 11:20:20Copy
• In the West Bank, the relentless expansion of settlements have reached a scale without precedent, further eroding the prospects for a just and lasting peace. 11:21:49Copy

🇧🇸Bahamas (the) · Philip Edward Davis · Day 4 · 2 sentences

• In 2008, when the banks of the richest nations were failing, trillions of dollars were found in a matter of weeks. 6:27:52Copy
• Somewhere, a bank is always too big to fail. 6:28:14Copy

🇪🇬Egypt · Moustafa Kamal Madbouly · Day 4 · 2 sentences

• In this context, Egypt reaffirms its categorical rejection of any attempt to displace the Palestinian people from their land, whether from the Gaza Strip or from the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. 7:44:51Copy
• We need expanded concessional financing, greater mobilization and lending capacities for multilateral development banks, and accelerated debt workout in a fair and effective manner. 7:53:22Copy

🇧🇳Brunei Darussalam · Prince 'Abdul Mateen · Day 5 · 2 sentences

• In the West Bank, Palestinians continue to endure occupation, expanding illegal settlements, settler violence, and displacement from their homes and land. 3:31:34Copy
• Whether in Gaza or the West Bank, these are not merely numbers; they are human lives. 3:31:45Copy

🇸🇲San Marino · Luca Beccari · Day 5 · 2 sentences

• In the West Bank and the East Jerusalem settlement expansion, settled violence, land appropriation, demolition and eviction must stop. 6:32:03Copy
• Mr. President, the consequences of the conflict extended far beyond Gaza and the West Bank. 6:33:27Copy

🇧🇷Brazil · Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• Illegal settlements in the West Bank are making the two-state solution increasingly unviable, essential for Israelis and Palestinians to live in safety. 1:26:00Copy

🇹🇷Türkiye · Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• Meanwhile, the West Bank is witnessing the most severe period of what we regard as settler violence and terror. 2:59:51Copy

🇶🇦Qatar · Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• The continued persecution, apartheid, and settler terrorism in the occupied West Bank, and the desecration of Islamic and Christian holy sites, foremost among them the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, denying the Palestinian people their rights, most notably their inalienable right to establish their independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital. 4:00:33Copy

🇦🇴Angola · João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• The expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and lands through expansion of Jewish settlements in West Bank must elicit the strongest international outrage and condemnation. 6:23:14Copy

🇲🇳Mongolia · Khurelsukh Ukhnaa · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• We also call upon the international community, banks, financial institutions, and development partners to provide credible assistance to landlocked developing countries through their support and collaboration. 6:48:35Copy

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

• The Republic of Korea will build the global AI hub platform to share this vision with the international community in collaboration with international organizations, multilateral development banks, the business sector, and academia. 7:07:29Copy

🇨🇭Switzerland · Guy Parmelin · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• A bridge does not require the two banks of a river to become alike. 8:47:59Copy

🇯🇵Japan · Takaichi Sanae · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• In June, we established RISE Plus under the World Bank Group and pledged a contribution of 20 million US dollars to help develop the infrastructure essential for critical minerals production. 10:41:33Copy

🇲🇦Morocco · Nasser Bourita · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• Developments in the West Bank are deeply alarming. 12:19:23Copy

🇷🇴Romania · Nicuşor-Daniel Dan · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• At the same time, recent developments in the West Bank are a genuine reason for concern and risk undermining the peace that this plan seeks to promote. 52:09Copy

🇪🇪Estonia · Alar Karis · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• The situation in the West Bank and Gaza remains of great concern. 2:49:27Copy

🇹🇱Timor-Leste · José Ramos-Horta · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• Regarding the situation in the Israeli-occupied territories, Gaza and West Bank, Timor-Leste joins with the vast majority of UN Member States to reaffirm our belief that the two-state solution is the only viable solution for Israelis to live in peace with themselves and with the Palestinians, and for the Palestinians to live in peace with themselves and with the Israelis. 3:10:48Copy

🇵🇱Poland · Karol Nawrocki · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• We focus on areas critical to sustainable development, In Palestine, we continue to support the operation of mobile clinics providing medical care in the West Bank and strengthening employment and professional skills, particularly among women. 7:00:48Copy

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

• And nowhere is this crisis of credibility more painful than in the ongoing persecution of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank. 1:13:05Copy

🇬🇾Guyana · Mohamed Irfaan Ali · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• In July 2025, under Guyana's leadership, the Global Biodiversity Alliance was established as an inclusive platform In just one year, the Alliance expanded from 17 to 138 members, bringing together governments, institutional organizations, including the UN, development banks, indigenous peoples, local communities, scientists, universities, and the private sector. 2:04:10Copy

🇰🇲Comoros · Azali Assoumani · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• Such reform is essential to guarantee our right to development and to ensure that multilateral banks finally take account of our vulnerabilities in their allocation policies. 2:57:34Copy

🇱🇷Liberia · Joseph Nyuma Boakai · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. 3:08:20Copy

🇧🇴Bolivia (Plurinational State of) · Rodrigo Paz Pereira · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• When I took on the challenge of government, There were $51 million in our reserves because the reserves of the central bank had been entirely liquidated. 3:20:41Copy

🇮🇱Israel · Benjamin Netanyahu · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• Yet at the time, on this tiny patch of earth, no West Bank, no Gaza, no Golan Heights, just the very survival of this one and only Jewish state, because this is what this conflict is about. 5:22:29Copy

🇬🇷Greece · Kyriakos Mitsotakis · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• However, developments in the West Bank remain a source of deep concern. 10:31:28Copy

🇦🇺Australia · Anthony Albanese · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• We will continue to speak out against actions that damage that prospect of peace, including illegal settlements in the West Bank, just as we continue to oppose any role for the terrorists of Hamas in Palestine's future. 11:05:06Copy

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

• Any unilateral actions that undermine this prospect, including the continued settlement expansions in the West Bank, only perpetuate the conflict and must be firmly rejected by all of us. 11:46:59Copy

🇹🇷Türkiye · · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• His fabrications are desperate, all of attempts to conceal Israel's genocide in Gaza and its relentless aggression in the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, and beyond. 12:24:41Copy

🇰🇮Kiribati · Taneti Maamau · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• Participants included Australia, the People's Republic of China, the European Union, New Zealand, Japan, the United States of America, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the UN agencies. 35:19Copy

🇲🇨Monaco · Christophe Mirmand · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• We support efforts to rebuild Gaza, and we are concerned about the ongoing violence in the West Bank, in the occupied territories, which ride roughshod over human rights and dishonour democratic values. 1:50:39Copy

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

• Confronted with rising seas on our most vulnerable shorelines, we completed the Yibai seawall and footpath last week, 1.8 kilometers of ocean-side protection, built with support from the World Bank, the Green Climate Fund, and our own resources. 2:09:44Copy

🇲🇹Malta · Robert Abela · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• Sadly, any progress towards a long-term solution is being endangered by the situation and the West Bank. 2:30:20Copy

🇵🇰Pakistan · Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• Excellencies, it is deeply worrying that Israeli violence has now spread to the West Bank, where the forcible eviction of Palestinians clearly reflects Israel's genocidal agenda, which continues unabated. 5:19:26Copy

🇳🇪Niger · Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• A confederation investment and development bank has been created. 6:09:16Copy

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

• And multilateral development banks that lend like development partners rather than like commercial creditors. 8:12:22Copy

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

• International financial institutions and multilateral development banks must recognize the multidimensional vulnerability index, the MVI, which ensures that it informs eligibility and allocations. 8:34:06Copy

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

• We therefore call on the World Bank, the IMF, development banks, climate funds, and every partner here to incorporate NVI into the architecture of financing. 9:11:16Copy

🇨🇳China · Han Zheng · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• China calls for advancing the governance of the West Bank and the post-conflict reconstruction of Gaza in accordance with the principle of the Palestinians governing Palestine. 23:11Copy

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

• We want people on both banks of the Dniester to live together in a peaceful, democratic, and prosperous Moldova. 1:38:47Copy

🇻🇦Holy See · Cardinal Pietro Parolin · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• The Holy See reiterates its call for an end to the ongoing violence against the Palestinian civilian population in the West Bank, particularly the escalation of hostilities, home demolition and movement restriction, driving the displacement of Palestinian communities. 1:49:36Copy

🇱🇦Lao People’s Democratic Republic · Thongsavanh Phomvihane · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• We remain deeply concerned by humanitarian catastrophe and reconstruction requirement in Gaza, as well as the mounting challenges in the West Bank. 2:06:22Copy

🇷🇺Russian Federation · Sergey Lavrov · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• The situation in the West Bank continues to deteriorate, where Israel is stepping up its settlement activities. 3:15:54Copy

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia · Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• The continued suffering of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and the targeting of civilians by Israeli occupation, the obstruction of humanitarian assistance, attempts at forced displacement, and the continued expansion of illegal settlements all constitute serious violations of international law and international humanitarian law. 3:44:23Copy

🇮🇸Iceland · Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• And in the West Bank, illegal settlement activity continues to expand. 3:59:25Copy

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

• Third, reform of specialized UN agencies, first and foremost the international financial institutions, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the International Finance Corporation, the World Trade Organization. 5:25:01Copy

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

• My country, Tunisia, condemns the continuing settlement policies of the occupying entity in the West Bank and the policies of persecution, starvation, and isolation in the Gaza Strip, and the crimes of genocide that claim more lives each day, in the absence of any accountability or any punishment. 5:57:08Copy

🇩🇯Djibouti · Abdoulkader Houssein Omar · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• We roundly condemn illegal settlement activity, violence committed against civilians, including by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, forced displacement, and any policy aimed at altering the demographic and territorial reality of the occupied Palestinian territory. 6:50:50Copy

🇨🇦Canada · Anita Anand · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• Israel's settlements in the West Bank are illegal under international law and an obstacle to peace. 7:52:29Copy

🇮🇩Indonesia · Sugiono · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• The clear violation of international law in Gaza and the West Bank are reminiscent of our world pre-1945, a world pre the UN Charter, pre the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and pre the four 1949 Geneva Conventions. 9:06:12Copy

🇧🇫Burkina Faso · Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• and is also embodied by the creation of the confederal bank, investment bank and development bank, and is embodied by the consolidation of relations between all of the different institutions of the countries, the AES, as well as strengthening the historic centuries long links between the communities and the vital forces of our space. 57:48Copy

🇲🇼Malawi · George Chapatula Chaponda · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• Furthermore, the international financing architecture, specifically the IMF and the World Bank, must be radically overhauled. 2:20:13Copy

🇱🇰Sri Lanka · Vijitha Herath · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• Today, Sri Lanka has been reclassified by the World Bank as an upper-middle-income economy, and ratings agencies have recognized this positive trajectory. 2:34:17Copy

🇩🇰Denmark · Christina Markus Lassen · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• And in the occupied West Bank, settler violence and settlement expansion threaten the daily lives of Palestinians, and undermine the prospects for a future Palestinian state. 5:53:56Copy