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🇻🇺Vanuatu · Odo Tevi · Day 6 · 11 sentences

• When disputes are resolved peacefully, a small state does not have to choose between submission and confrontation. 6:16:28Copy
• Yet, I remain convinced that this is precisely the moment when we must choose cooperation over confrontation. 6:39:07Copy
• We must choose dialogue over division. 6:39:14Copy
• We must choose law over force. 6:39:16Copy

🇲🇩Republic of Moldova · Vasile Tofan · Day 5 · 7 sentences

• Small countries do not choose their geography or their size. 1:28:47Copy
• It is our citizens exercising their right to choose. 1:31:31Copy
• Choose democracy, choose prosperity, choose peace. 1:31:35Copy
• Ukraine did not choose this war. 1:37:11Copy

🇦🇱Albania · Edi Rama · Day 4 · 6 sentences

• We choose acceleration, no surrender. 5:03:29Copy
• We choose innovation, no abdication. 5:03:33Copy
• We choose augmentation, no atrophy of human capacity. 5:03:35Copy
• We choose freedom of speech, We know what it is to live without it. 5:03:43Copy

🇵🇼Palau · Surangel Whipps · Day 2 · 5 sentences

• No country should have to choose between health of its children and the commercial interest of an industry that is built on addiction. 3:55:14Copy
• Partnership must never become pressure, and assistance must never come at the cost of the nation's values, institutions, or the freedom to choose. 3:57:16Copy
• We choose our partners based on our shared values of democracy, human rights, and a rules-based international order, principles that underpin our friendship with Taiwan, a trusted partner that can contribute even more fully if given the space to do so. 4:00:28Copy
• Under the UN Charter, small states are sovereign states with the right to determine their own future, choose their partners, and pursue development that serves their people. 4:01:23Copy

🇫🇯Fiji · Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati Lalabalavu · Day 3 · 5 sentences

• When the world asks small states to choose between competing power blocks, Fiji chooses principles. 6:36:51Copy
• And we choose the charter. 6:37:01Copy
• We choose the international law. 6:37:03Copy
• We choose dialogue over coercion, human dignity over domination, and cooperation over confrontation. 6:37:06Copy

🇵🇬Papua New Guinea · James Marape · Day 4 · 5 sentences

• A person must be also free not to profess religion if he or she chooses so. 5:38:07Copy
• A Buddhist majority Nations must protect people of other religions, and every society must respect the rights of those who choose not to profess a religion. 5:38:54Copy
• The child did not choose the wars of this generation. 5:44:01Copy
• Choose dialogue and peaceful settlement wherever possible. 5:46:43Copy

🇧🇹Bhutan · Tshering Tobgay · Day 1 · 4 sentences

• That means rejecting the assumption that we must choose between enterprise and well-being, between technology and humanity, between development and nature. 10:05:19Copy
• GMC is not asking investors to choose between commercial success and quality of life. 10:12:00Copy
• Because the world's best people choose more than a workplace. 10:12:11Copy
• They choose where to build their lives. 10:12:16Copy

🇺🇦Ukraine · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Day 2 · 4 sentences

• They take away their right to choose. 5:12:32Copy
• There are more and more ballistic threats, and the industrial capacity of those who choose war is very large. 5:22:09Copy
• But Ukrainians did not choose this war. 5:23:13Copy
• We choose not to die, not to lose. 5:23:18Copy

🇺🇾Uruguay · Yamandú Orsi · Day 3 · 4 sentences

• And no people should be doomed to choose between models imposed from outside. 3:53:19Copy
• We can choose to accept inequality as inevitable. 3:58:08Copy
• Or, on the contrary, we could choose another path, the most difficult path, but also the most human one. 3:58:23Copy
• The hope that we can still change, that we can still learn, that we can still build, and that we can still choose peace. 4:01:51Copy

🇯🇴Jordan · Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein · Day 1 · 3 sentences

• And where we choose to direct it has never mattered more. 2:32:55Copy
• And we know that we cannot choose between responding to the emergency before us and building the future beyond it. 2:47:39Copy
• The future is shaped not only by what we do, but what we choose to ignore. 2:51:17Copy

🇵🇾Paraguay · Santiago Peña Palacios · Day 2 · 3 sentences

• We rose up through hard work, through openness to the world and through the stubborn determination of a people that did not choose its democracy but did choose their own destiny. 2:03:23Copy
• We are a country that did not choose its geography, but we are a country that chose our destiny, a country that has confronted adversity and chose to rise again, a country with energy, resources, talent, and above all, an unbreakable determination to progress. 2:05:49Copy
• Today, once again, we choose dialogue over confrontation, cooperation over isolation, democracy over authoritarianism, peace over war, and development over resignation. 2:06:39Copy

🇲🇻Maldives · Hussain Mohamed Latheef · Day 4 · 3 sentences

• It can be undermined when external powers limit a state's freedom to choose. 44:51Copy
• The process to choose his successor must be transparent and based on merit. 57:58Copy
• Today, we ask it to protect something just as fundamental: every state's freedom to choose its own future. 59:45Copy

🇸🇧Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 3 sentences

• Vulnerable countries should not have to choose between climate action and educating our children, caring for the sick, or securing food and water. 4:06:31Copy
• Neighbors are asked to choose sides. 4:21:27Copy
• Let us choose cooperation over division, dialogue over confrontation, peace over hostility, and action over inaction. 4:23:16Copy

🇧🇿Belize · John Briceño · Day 5 · 3 sentences

• We have the knowledge to choose the first path. 1:03:49Copy
• Belize has chosen and will always choose law over force. 1:10:43Copy
• We will invest in our people, protect our natural capital, modernize our economy, and choose dialogue over division and law over force. 1:15:13Copy

🇮🇸Iceland · Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir · Day 5 · 3 sentences

• The generation of 1945 had learned a terrible cost that while states can choose their actions, they cannot control all the consequences they set in motion. 3:52:43Copy
• We must choose whether to uphold the law when it's inconvenient, whether to defend the rights of people who are not our citizens, and whether to protect and respect a system even when that system does not deliver the outcome we want. 4:11:16Copy
• We choose international law over selective obedience, accountability over impunity, cooperation over isolation, human dignity over division. 4:11:46Copy

🇸🇲San Marino · Luca Beccari · Day 5 · 3 sentences

• These rights do not disappear because a government choose to deny them. 6:38:52Copy
• At a time when the world is tempted by division, we must choose cooperation. 6:44:04Copy
• And when the spirits grow, we must choose peace. 6:44:12Copy

🇲🇼Malawi · George Chapatula Chaponda · Day 6 · 3 sentences

• The current international financial architecture forces developing nations to choose between servicing predatory debts and investing in health, education, and climate resilience. 2:14:57Copy
• The current system traps developing nations in cycles of unsustainable debt, forcing governments to choose between servicing foreign loans of funding basic education and health care for their citizens. 2:20:23Copy
• We can choose to retreat into isolationism and protectionism, or we can choose to summon the political courage required to build a fairer, more resilient, and inclusive world. 2:29:01Copy

🇨🇬Congo · Constant Serge Bounda · Day 6 · 3 sentences

• Sovereignty is the ability of a people and a nation to freely determine their priorities, to defend their legitimate interests, to choose their partners, and to preserve their independence in decision-making. 2:58:44Copy
• The Republic of the Congo does not seek to choose one camp against another. 2:59:26Copy
• We will continue to believe in Africa and in our shared destiny, and we will continue to choose the United Nations as a privileged space for dialogue amongst people. 3:10:23Copy

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

• Mr. President, small states are increasingly asked to choose between partners, between blocs, between competing visions of the world. 9:23:04Copy
• Nairobi will not be made to choose. 9:23:14Copy

🇻🇳Viet Nam · To Lam · Day 1 · 2 sentences

• All states must respect each other's independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and right to choose their own path of development, refrain from interference in internal affairs, and refrain from the threat or use of force inconsistent with the UN Charter. 9:30:52Copy
• Vietnam chooses peace, cooperation and development, we will work steadfastly with all countries to strengthen the UN, uphold international law and translate our shared commitments into tangible benefits for our people. 9:39:04Copy

🇹🇱Timor-Leste · José Ramos-Horta · Day 2 · 2 sentences

• And I begin, and I quote, "From a country that has learned from war, "Timor-Leste sends a message to the world, "that is, peace is not just a dream, "but a decision that we all have to choose." 3:22:36Copy
• Why should we choose hate and war when we love is a choice by Irabella, 12 years old. 3:23:18Copy

🇵🇦Panama · José Raúl Mulino Quintero · Day 2 · 2 sentences

• We didn't come to the Council to choose sides. 6:22:11Copy
• Ladies and gentlemen, in a world marked by strategic competition between the great powers, Panama as a result of our history and beliefs, chooses to remain the meeting point where humanity can build a future of peace and shared development. 6:25:25Copy

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

• And we'll come out of this stronger precisely for this reason, because Spain does not choose the easy route. 11:22:39Copy
• We always choose the fairest route. 11:22:45Copy

🇮🇹Italy · Antonio Tajani · Day 2 · 2 sentences

• Against the law of the strongest, we choose the strength of the law. 12:13:15Copy
• Against the politics of force, we choose the force of politics. 12:13:18Copy

🇺🇿Uzbekistan · Saida Mirziyoyeva · Day 2 · 2 sentences

• Ladies and gentlemen, we see countries are posed with the question: which side do you choose? 12:30:13Copy
• we choose young people who are determined to pursue education, acquire a profession, and define their own future, because we do not measure the true strength of a statehood by its military or economic capacity. 12:30:30Copy

🇿🇼Zimbabwe · Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa · Day 3 · 2 sentences

• We must therefore choose between purposeful reform or unmitigated repression. 20:07Copy
• I reiterate, Zimbabwe is a friend to all and an enemy to none, unless you choose to be an enemy. 32:22Copy

🇳🇱Netherlands (Kingdom of the) · Rob Jetten · Day 3 · 2 sentences

• And when major powers choose to pursue only their own interest, it is tempting to respond defensively. 9:54:35Copy
• And so it is time for us, the global community, to choose to pursue the common interest, not by trying to build an entirely new world order, but simply by working together. 9:54:51Copy

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

• Niger intends to fully exercise its sovereignty over its natural resources and will never again accept any restriction imposed from outside on its sovereign right to freely choose its partners. 6:22:38Copy
• We declare that trust will be reborn when every nation, big or small, is treated with the same consideration, when the right to sovereign equality, to territorial integrity, to freely choose one's partners, and to non-interference, when those rights are respected. 6:23:01Copy

🇰🇳Saint Kitts and Nevis · Geoffrey Hanley · Day 4 · 2 sentences

• Saint Kitts and Nevis chooses to help shape that transformation. 9:13:58Copy
• The Haitian people must choose their leaders freely, credibly, and safely. 9:19:26Copy

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

• We call upon the major economies to choose dialogue and cooperation. 4:46:27Copy
• And as this organizations prepare for new leadership, let us choose leadership equal to this moment and these tasks. 5:04:34Copy

🇺🇳President of the General Assembly (opening) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• We must choose dialogue and tolerance and foster a culture in which human rights are respected, not only in law, but in our daily interactions. 1:09:46Copy

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

• We are called to choose between multilateralism or unilateralism, democracy or extremism, sovereignty or subordination. 1:24:44Copy

🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan · Sadyr Zhaparov · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• President Trump's decisions have created conditions for strengthening the sovereignty of states and enabling them to independently choose their own path of development. 3:40:08Copy

🇨🇱Chile · José Antonio Kast · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• Delegates, people from the investment world are listening to us, and I say to you, choose Chile to invest. 4:48:18Copy

🇫🇷France · Emmanuel Macron · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• Our duty, today more than ever, is to hold firm here at the United Nations in order to make decisions to further our common interests so that people can choose their fate freely their development model, choose their future, to refuse their sovereignty being taken hostage by unjust forces, by fear. 5:40:20Copy

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

• The resonance of UN will be proven only when children's laughter replaces gunfire, when young people can enjoy the opportunity to learn, work, and take on new challenges, and when anyone, anywhere can choose to live the life they want. 7:17:07Copy

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

• Russia could choose a different course tomorrow, accept a ceasefire, come to the negotiating table. 11:15:00Copy

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

• However, good people Choose the right path. 16:37Copy

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

• As one of the first supporters of a global alliance for human rights, Estonia feels that human rights should once again be at the center of a world we choose to build. 2:55:46Copy

🇱🇾Libya · Mohamed Younis Menfi · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• That is the path we choose for Libya, a state sovereign in its decisions, unified in its institutions, just among its citizens and a partner for peace and stability in its region and the world. 3:46:11Copy

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

• We can allow divisions to weaken the institutions we built together, or we can choose to strengthen them. 4:22:43Copy

🇪🇨Ecuador · Daniel Roy-Gilchrist Noboa Azin · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• And today we are experiencing a crisis, a profound crisis, and recovering security means giving people about their future for a young person to be able to choose university rather than being trapped by a criminal gang for a family to open a business without fear for a company to invest and create jobs and for institutions to respond to the needs of citizens and not to elicit interests therefore the success of an economy is not measured only by how much production grows but rather how much is able to reduce poverty is measured in young people with decent jobs and children with a better education, and citizens who are able to build their future with dignity. 5:01:09Copy

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

• This year, the United Nations will choose its next Secretary-General. 7:45:28Copy

🇷🇸Serbia · Aleksandar Vučić · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• The space for independent decision-making is narrowing, while pressure on states to choose sides is steadily increasing. 8:22:39Copy

🇸🇿Eswatini · King Mswati III · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• Let us reestablish trust in international cooperation and, above all, reaffirm our belief that humanity's shared challenges can be addressed when nations choose cooperation over division. 9:43:27Copy

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

• Let us walk united as one nation that decided in the wake of pain to choose hope. 10:42:26Copy

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

• Our hand remains outstretched toward all the children of Congo that choose peace, republican debate, and loyalty to their homeland. 11:55:42Copy

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

• The world may not transform overnight because of the speeches that we deliver here in this August assembly, but history would faithfully record the truths we choose to speak and the silences that we choose to keep when we are granted the privilege of addressing this global town hall. 1:02:18Copy

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

• On the 5th of December 2026, the Gambian people will again exercise their sovereign democratic right to choose their president. 4:40:29Copy

🇨🇮Côte d’Ivoire · Tiémoko Meyliet Koné · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• We must choose dialogue over confrontation, cooperation over isolation, and solidarity over indifference. 7:11:20Copy

🇬🇪Georgia · Irakli Kobakhidzhe · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• Georgia's statehood has been tested more than once, but these challenges have only strengthened our determination to choose our own path. 9:22:43Copy

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

• In the movies, Skynet learns to choose its own targets and starts a war. 11:50:56Copy

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

• We come here, we come to speak of the future we choose. 41:17Copy

🇱🇧Lebanon · Nawaf Salam · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• That was after Lebanon found itself in a war that it did not choose. 1:31:36Copy

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

• Stand firm against the vested interests that seek to block effective action, stand firm against the naysayers who say that because all don't choose to act, nobody should. 2:41:44Copy

🇹🇻Tuvalu · Feleti Teo · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• The declaration affirms that Tuvalu's nationhood is not negotiable, that our maritime rights are not erasable, and that our people should never be forced to choose between their homeland and their future. 3:14:48Copy

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

• And let us prove that even in a divided world, humanity can still choose to stand together. 5:29:00Copy

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

• No people must have to choose between responding to an emergency and financing its development. 6:52:56Copy

🇪🇬Egypt · Moustafa Kamal Madbouly · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• Countries should not be forced to choose between debt servicing and financing education, healthcare, food security, and essential infrastructure. 7:53:54Copy

🇰🇿Kazakhstan · Mukhtar Tileuberdi · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• We will continue to choose cooperation over coordination and work with all Member States to strengthen the United Nations and turn our shared commitments into meaningful action. 10:25:47Copy

🇲🇷Mauritania · Mohamed Salem Merzoug · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• They decided to choose dialogue instead of confrontation. 10:29:32Copy

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

• International law is not a menu you can choose from at will. 11:44:39Copy

🇬🇹Guatemala · Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• There cannot be one rule for the powerful and another for the weak, nor can there be victims whose suffering outrages us and others whose suffering we choose to ignore. 12:06:20Copy

🇸🇪Sweden · Maria Malmer Stenergard · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• Everyone has the right to live freely and with dignity, to be who they are, and to love whom they choose. 12:25:10Copy

🇫🇲Micronesia (Federated States of) · Aren Palik · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• In the spirit of camaraderie, let us choose cooperation over division and build a peaceful, just, and sustainable future in which every nation can thrive. 53:07Copy

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

• As we look to the future, we are reminded that everything we strive for ultimately depends on how we choose to navigate these trials together. 2:49:45Copy

🇹🇯Tajikistan · Sirojiddin Muhriddin · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• The challenges before us are great, but they are not greater than our capacity to overcome them if we choose cooperation over confrontation, dialogue over division, and hope over fear. 5:47:38Copy

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

• We may choose either to continue meeting under the idealism of slogans or to commit ourselves to what can truly achieve development, prosperity, and peace for all. 5:54:44Copy

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

• They have heard overt threat over use nuclear weapons, and they are seeing their government choose not to regulate AI and the many ways it is being abused, but instead give it more power. 7:05:09Copy

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

• Instead, Canada chooses to move with confidence and strength. 7:54:58Copy

🇯🇲Jamaica · Kamina Johnson Smith · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• Our own journey has taught us that vulnerability need not mean helplessness, that discipline creates resilience, that partnership multiplies possibility, and that even in moments of profound crisis, nations can choose to build forward. 8:13:33Copy

🇿🇲Zambia · Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• It is in this spirit that Zambia recently concluded its general elections through which our people exercised their constitutional rights to choose their leaders. 8:36:51Copy

🇮🇩Indonesia · Sugiono · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• And we choose to keep talking, even when agreement is difficult. 9:02:51Copy

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

• For the Confederation, rebuilding trust must go hand in hand with the immediate interest of dealing with state support for terrorists because terrorism can must not continue to be a tool of foreign policy on the part of certain powers the Confederation of Sahel states does not just face a simple sum of isolated terrorist groups we face a persistent enterprise of destabilization supported by considerable means and focused against the right of our peoples to live in peace, to choose their leaders and to have control over their resources and fully exercise their sovereignty. 1:00:16Copy

🇸🇻El Salvador · Alexandra Hill Tinoco · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• multilateralism that does not oblige countries to constantly choose between sovereignty and cooperation. 2:04:14Copy

🇬🇩Grenada · Ingrid Jackson · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• Let us choose dialogue over division. 5:20:55Copy

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

• These elections are intended to mark the conclusion of the transition period and provide the people of South Sudan the opportunity to choose democratically their own leaders. 5:31:58Copy

🇧🇯Benin · Marc Hermanne Gninadoou Araba · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, there are moments in history where we are compelled to choose not just what we want to do, but also what we want to become. 6:43:16Copy

🇹🇭Thailand · · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• Certainly, we can choose what kind of neighbors we want to be. 7:19:30Copy